bookwork

Noun

bookwork (uncountable)

1. Accounting work; book keeping.
   • The tax officials seized documents that Tony Hachem said related to a company for which he'd done unpaid bookwork about five years ago.2009 March 27, Kelvin Healey, “Poker pro Tony Hachem slams ATO tax raid”, in Herald Sun
2. The art and science of formatting books.
   • The development of a typesetting program suite for general bookwork calls for very close cooperation between typographer and programmer.1976, Jack Belzer, Albert G. Holzman, Allen Kent, Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology: Volume 5
3. Work done with the aid of textbooks.
   • The diagram indicates in some degree the relative amount of oral work as compared with bookwork in our best schools.2008, Joseph Baldwin, School Management and School Methods
4. (chiefly University of Cambridge) The act of memorising information; used attributively to describe or denote questions that test information learned rather than requiring additional thought.
   • The proportion of problems to bookwork done by the candidates is very various. The latter shows more reading, the former evince more natural Mathematical ability.1852, Charles Astor Bristed, Five years in an English university