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paper-pushers

paper-pushers is the plural of paper-pusher.

Meaning of paper-pusher

Noun

paper-pusher (plural paper-pushers)

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

Questions about paper-pushers

What is paper-pushers the plural of?
Paper-pushers is the plural of paper-pusher.

Words near paper-pushers in the dictionary

  1. paper-milling
  2. paper-money
  3. paper-plane
  4. paper-planes
  5. paper-pusher
  6. paper-pushers
  7. paper-thick
  8. paper-thickness
  9. paper-thin
  10. paper-thinness
  11. paper-trail

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