paper-pusher

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English[edit]

Noun[edit]

paper-pusher (plural paper-pushers)

(informal) A clerk or bureaucrat, especially one with a routine job.
Synonym: pencil pusher

Translations[edit]

clerk or bureaucrat

Danish: papirnusser (da) c
Italian: passacarte m or f
Polish: biurokrata (pl) f, zarękawek (pl) m
Serbo-Croatian: uredski štakor m, kancelarijski štakor m, kancelarijski pacov m

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