0 the act of doing a difficult or long search through many books, documents, etc.: --
The long paperchase through the statistical sources leads to two sets of conclusions.
1 a process that creates too many paper documents, forms, etc.: --
We would rapidly be faced by a monstrous paperchase.
There are arguments in favour of using the court system because it brings people together instead of placing them at either end of a paperchase.
The paperchase process was then imposed on people seeking to go through the welfare scheme.
We need fewer paperchases and more imaginative use of information technology.
Why switch money from nursery places to paperchases, as the nursery voucher system does?
Let us consider the bureaucratic paperchase involved in the attempt to audit the situation—to establish where the money comes from, and to whom it goes.
The nursery voucher scheme was wasteful and a bureaucratic paperchase.
We are already taking action on bureaucracy, fair waiting and ending the endless paperchase.
