"pen-pusher" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1925 June 21, “Letters: Miners Well Paid?”, in Pittsburgh Press, retrieved 2010-08-21:",
          "text": "A pen-pusher in a Sixth ave. office said a coal miner is paid well. I asked him if he ever dug coal. Oh no!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988 Aug. 28, Trip Gabriel, Russia's Troubled Superstar,\" New York Times (retrieved 21 Aug 2010)",
          "text": "\"I had to prove to people who were unimportant, who'd never achieved anything in their lives—the administrator, the pen-pusher—that I could fight.\""
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 July 12, Ramanujam Sridhar, “A time to change”, in Hindu BusinessLine, India, retrieved 2010-08-21:",
          "text": "Investors may have a lopsided view of the company’s reputation simply because an uncaring pen pusher in the finance department responded lethargically to an investor’s query.",
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        "A person who performs routine office work, involving mainly paperwork."
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          "office",
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          "work",
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        "(informal, often derogatory) A person who performs routine office work, involving mainly paperwork."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "desk job"
        }
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        {
          "word": "bureaucrat"
        },
        {
          "word": "pencil pusher"
        },
        {
          "word": "pen pusher"
        },
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          "word": "penpusher"
        }
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        "derogatory",
        "informal",
        "often"
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          "ref": "1925 June 21, “Letters: Miners Well Paid?”, in Pittsburgh Press, retrieved 2010-08-21:",
          "text": "A pen-pusher in a Sixth ave. office said a coal miner is paid well. I asked him if he ever dug coal. Oh no!",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1988 Aug. 28, Trip Gabriel, Russia's Troubled Superstar,\" New York Times (retrieved 21 Aug 2010)",
          "text": "\"I had to prove to people who were unimportant, who'd never achieved anything in their lives—the administrator, the pen-pusher—that I could fight.\""
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 July 12, Ramanujam Sridhar, “A time to change”, in Hindu BusinessLine, India, retrieved 2010-08-21:",
          "text": "Investors may have a lopsided view of the company’s reputation simply because an uncaring pen pusher in the finance department responded lethargically to an investor’s query.",
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        "A person who performs routine office work, involving mainly paperwork."
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        "(informal, often derogatory) A person who performs routine office work, involving mainly paperwork."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "pencil pusher"
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      "word": "pen pusher"
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