Definition of "pen-pusher" []

• A person who performs routine office work, involving mainly paperwork. (noun)

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• "The most dramatic of these conflicts was that fought out in the eastern provinces ca. 319-16 between Antigonus and Eumenes, the despised Greek pen-pusher who proved himself the finest general of them all and was only defeated when his own troops sold him to Antigonus in return for their captured baggage-train."
• "I wish I could share it with you, but then my fellow villagers might be inclined to tar and feather a certain pauvre type whomistook a certain pauvre pen-pusher for a hooker."
• ""I can't have my relationship with Will Riker known to every little pen-pusher in Starfleet.""