paper-pusher

paper-pusher
paper-pushing, adj.
/pay"peuhr poosh'euhr/, n. Informal.
1. a person who has a routine desk job.
2. a bureaucrat. Also called paper-shuffler /pay"peuhr shuf'leuhr/.

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