Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. clerk or bureaucrat (especially one with a routine job)
WordNet 3.0
- n. a clerk or bureaucrat who does paperwork
Examples
“Now imagine that the boss of this wreck is a weak-willed paper-pusher who abhors confrontations, and everyone knows he has a 70% chance of being fired at the end of the year.”
“Collectively, we spend hundreds of thousands of hours in the woods-more than any paper-pusher in madison who is making these laws. anyone going to join me?”
“GROSS: But if you were a cop, would you be one of those cops, one of the paper-pusher cops?”
“So we didn't directly write the first script together, but he was sending us ideas in, and he came up with the idea of a guy who loves to be a paper-pusher, actually relishes it.”
“And it was sort of that idea, the idea that there's new types of heroes, and that's sort of a little bit what informed Will's character, a guy who loves, you know, being a paper-pusher, Allen Gamble.”
“But I was struck by seeing the Justice Department headquarters on the block because it reminded me of a funny thing that happened, forty years ago, during the Cold War, when I was working in Washington as a very junior CIA paper-pusher.”
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“Prior to that he'd been an obscure CIA paper-pusher to whom no-one listened.”
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“Too busy, plus sad about being anonymous paper-pusher.”
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“So Mr. Blair will be a paper-pusher, in charge of making ever important reports to ever important Quartet, leaving non-negotiations to Ms. Rice.”
“The closing sequence, in which Mackey suffered in silence in a fresh hell of his own making as a paper-pusher in a generic office cubicle, was even more impactful than the ambiguous restaurant scene that closed The Sopranos.”
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