单词 | paperasserie |
释义 | paperasserien. Excessive bureaucratic procedure or paperwork; bureaucracy; red tape. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > [noun] > officialism or bureaucracy red tape1736 bureaucracy1815 bureauism1829 red-tapery1831 red-tapism1834 officiality1841 functionarism1842 officialism1849 red-tapedom1850 red tapeworm1851 tapism1852 green-ferret1853 officialty1853 paperasserie1856 paperchase1856 paper-chasing1876 departmentalism1886 Whitehallism1915 striped trousers1958 1856 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 108 In his [sc. Freiherrn vom Stein's] later life he lost no opportunity of denouncing bureaucracy and paperasserie (red-tapism). 1911 Econ. Jrnl. 21 671 A preface contributed by M. Leroy Beaulieu deprecating the loss to production consequent on the increase of bureaucracy and ‘paperasserie’, the discouragement to providence and industry. 1965 New Statesman 21 May 809/1 The complaints universally made against Indian administrators today—delay and file-passing—seem to be just the complaints that Curzon made against the British administrators of his time. His first battle was against paperasserie. 1996 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 20 Oct. 38 Britain's quarantine laws should be tightened. Our bulwark against rabies..must be not be [sic] transmuted into the flimsy paperasserie of ‘Passports for Pets’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1856 |
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