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Definition of "paper-pusher" []

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

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Use "paper-pusher" in a sentence
  • "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?"