paper-pusher

[pey-per-poosh-er]

noun

Informal.

1. a person who has a routine desk job.

2. a bureaucrat.

Other Word Forms

• paper-pushing adjective

Example Sentences

But in January, Mr. Putin transferred command of Ukraine operations to General Gerasimov, handing the reins to someone Mr. Prigozhin regularly pilloried as an incompetent paper-pusher.

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The process was that after a patient submitted an ER claim, a paper-pusher at insurer headquarters would examine it retrospectively and determine whether the ER visit had been warranted.

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The staff secretary is not a robotic paper-pusher, but a key presidential adviser.

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The baffled facial expressions that drove Krasinski’s humorous portrayal of paper-pusher Jim Halpert have been replaced by exasperation in this setting, with the more ominous theme of national security hanging in the balance.

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Ortiz delivers a slightly magical paper-pusher, Keener is a woman broken by sadness as we watch helplessly, and Hamm is as stoic outside as he is broken inside.

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