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单词 paper-pusher
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Definition of paper-pusher in English:

paper-pusher

noun
North American informal
  • A bureaucrat or menial clerical worker.

    he will be more than a paper-pusher, administration sources said
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Because many faculty deride administrators as paper-pushers who lack intellectual legitimacy, the maintenance of visible scholarship is likely to increase the chair's credibility.
    • Lowry is a different man entirely in his dreams: instead of a quiet paper-pusher, he sees himself as a winged superhero, an avenging angel soaring through blue skies to be with the woman he loves.
    • But what is clear, is that twenty billion pounds of savings can't be found from just sacking civil servants or paper-pushers - there aren't enough of them for us to save that much.
    • It is easy to stereotype these employees as mindless paper-pushers, but more than 15,000 job skills (from nuclear physicist to computer programmer to clerk typist) are included in the federal workforce.
    • The regulatory bodies have access to all the data themselves, not just the summaries, and they're not just paper-pushers, they're scientists and statisticians themselves.

Derivatives

  • paper-pushing

  • noun & adjective
    North American informal
    • Even on Earth Day organizing last year, I got really annoyed with all the paper-pushing.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • First, note that it's not that the paper-pushing isn't worth 10-14 dollars an hour, it's that companies have the bargaining power and can get away with only paying 7 dollars an hour because of our anti-union laws.
      • This deal reeks of paper-pushing, the appearance that ‘we're doing something about our problems.’
 
 

Definition of paper-pusher in US English:

paper-pusher

nounˈpāpər ˈpo͝oSHərˈpeɪpər ˈpʊʃər
North American informal
  • A bureaucrat or menial clerical worker.

    he will be more than a paper-pusher, administration sources said
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Because many faculty deride administrators as paper-pushers who lack intellectual legitimacy, the maintenance of visible scholarship is likely to increase the chair's credibility.
    • The regulatory bodies have access to all the data themselves, not just the summaries, and they're not just paper-pushers, they're scientists and statisticians themselves.
    • But what is clear, is that twenty billion pounds of savings can't be found from just sacking civil servants or paper-pushers - there aren't enough of them for us to save that much.
    • Lowry is a different man entirely in his dreams: instead of a quiet paper-pusher, he sees himself as a winged superhero, an avenging angel soaring through blue skies to be with the woman he loves.
    • It is easy to stereotype these employees as mindless paper-pushers, but more than 15,000 job skills (from nuclear physicist to computer programmer to clerk typist) are included in the federal workforce.
 
 
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