"paper-pusher" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: paper-pushers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} paper-pusher (plural paper-pushers)
  1. (informal) A clerk or bureaucrat, especially one with a routine job. Tags: informal Synonyms: pencil pusher Related terms: desk job, pixel pusher Translations (clerk or bureaucrat): papirnusser [common-gender] (Danish), passacarte [feminine, masculine] (Italian), biurokrata [feminine] (Polish), zarękawek [masculine] (Polish), uredski štakor [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), kancelarijski štakor [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), kancelarijski pacov [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian)
    Sense id: en-paper-pusher-en-noun-poytXHyn Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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