Definition of "paper-pusher" []

• Clerk or bureaucrat (especially one with a routine job) (noun)

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• "Now imagine that the boss of this wreck is a weak-willed paper-pusher who abhors confrontations, and everyone knows he has a 70% chance of being fired at the end of the year."
• "Collectively, we spend hundreds of thousands of hours in the woods-more than any paper-pusher in madison who is making these laws. anyone going to join me?"
• "GROSS: But if you were a cop, would you be one of those cops, one of the paper-pusher cops?"