paper-shuffling
noun
1Routine, unnecessary, or excessive paperwork, red tape.
2Illegal or unethical financial transactions disguised by misleading paperwork, creative accounting, etc.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in The Congressional Record.
- yousens
- yousuns
- youth
- youth centre
- youth club
- youth court
- youth custody centre
- youthful
- youthful-looking
- youthfully
- youthfulness
- youth hostel
- youth-hosteller
- Youth Training Scheme
- YouTube
- YouTuber
- you-uns
- you've
- you wait
- you wouldn't catch —— doing something
- you wouldn't read about it
- yow
- yowl
- yowsa
- yowsah