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paper-bound

paper-bound is the alternative spelling of paperbound.

Meaning of paperbound

Adjective

paperbound (comparative more paperbound, superlative most paperbound)

  1. (not comparable) Having flexible covers; paperback; softcovered.
    • Last week in collaboration with his longtime associate, Frederick Shelton, Editor Kiplinger published a paperbound booklet called Inflation Ahead!—What to do about it.1935 March 4, “Inflation Letters”, in Time
  2. (comparable) Involving or burdened by excessive administrative requirements, especially in the form of paperwork.
    • The company has turned to In Touch to automate what had been a paperbound process.1995 October 16, Bronwyn Fryer, “More Than Just A Pretty (Inter)Face”, in InformationWeek, retrieved 14 Apr 2009
    Synonyms:
    bureaucratic

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Forms of paper-bound

comparativemore paper-bound
superlativemost paper-bound

Questions about paper-bound

What is paper-bound the alternative spelling of?
Paper-bound is the alternative spelling of paperbound.

Words near paper-bound in the dictionary

  1. paper yabber
  2. paper yabbers
  3. paper-bag
  4. paper-bags
  5. paper-based
  6. paper-bound
  7. paper-chase
  8. paper-chases
  9. paper-clay
  10. paper-cloth
  11. paper-faced

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paper-bound (page history and authors); paperbound (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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