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—paper-pushing, adj./pay"peuhr poosh'euhr/, n. Informal.1. a person who has a routine desk job.2. a bureaucrat. Also called paper-shuffler /pay"peuhr shuf'leuhr/.
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paper-pusher — noun a clerk or bureaucrat who does paperwork • Hypernyms: ↑bureaucrat, ↑administrative official, ↑clerk * * * ˈpaper pusher 7 [paper pusher] noun ( … Useful english dictionary
paper pusher — noun, pl ⋯ ers [count] chiefly US informal + disapproving : someone who does boring or unimportant work in an office called also (US) pencil pusher (Brit) pen pusher … Useful english dictionary
paper-pusher — n Bureaucratic office workers. My office is filled with paper pushers. 1960s … Historical dictionary of American slang
paper-pusher — noun N. Amer. informal a bureaucrat or menial clerical worker. Derivatives paper pushing noun & adjective … English new terms dictionary
paper-pusher — noun (C) someone whose job is doing unimportant office work … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
paper-pusher — pa′per push er n. Informal. 1) cvb inf a person who has a routine desk job 2) cvb inf bureaucrat … From formal English to slang
