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paperbound

paperbound adjective: having flexible covers; paperback; softcovered.

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
    • “We need to bring this paperbound system into the 21st century,” he said.2009 April 6, John Eligon, “State Law to Cap Public Defenders’ Caseloads, but Only in the City”, in New York Times, retrieved 14 Apr 2009
    Synonyms:
    bureaucratic

Noun

paperbound (plural paperbounds)

  1. (dated) A paperback book.
    • Few book budgets can stretch enough to provide for the desired duplicates, but the paperbounds cost so little that by using them heavy duplication is possible. We also find them useful for duplication of titles that have only occasional demand.1957, Top of the News, volumes 14-16, page 55

paperbound meaning in Tamil

paperbound in Tamil

தாள் கட்டடம்

Synonyms of paperbound

Forms of paperbound

Adjective
comparativemore paperbound
superlativemost paperbound
alternative formpaper-bound
Noun
pluralpaperbounds

Origin of paperbound

From paper + bound.

Questions about paperbound

What does paperbound mean?
Paperbound means having flexible covers; paperback; softcovered.
What is paperbound in Tamil?
Paperbound in Tamil is தாள் கட்டடம். See Paperbound meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is paperbound?
Paperbound can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near paperbound in the dictionary

  1. paperbark flycatcher
  2. paperbark flycatchers
  3. paperbarks
  4. paperboard
  5. paperboards
  6. paperbound
  7. paperbounds
  8. paperboy
  9. paperboys
  10. paperbush
  11. paperchain

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paperbound (page history and authors); paperbound (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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