bookwork

bookwork
/book"werrk'/, n.
1. work or research that requires studying or reading, as distinguished from laboratory experimentation or the like.
2. bookkeeping or other paperwork necessary to the running of a business.
3. Print. work on books or pamphlets, as distinguished from work on newspapers.
Also, book-work.
[1840-50; BOOK + WORK; cf. OE bocweorc study, independently formed from same elements]

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