"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)

Inflected forms

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        "common-gender"
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      "sense": "clerk or bureaucrat",
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        "masculine"
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      "sense": "clerk or bureaucrat",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
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    },
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      "sense": "clerk or bureaucrat",
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      ],
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    },
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