paper-pusher

1. 1.

   a clerk or bureaucrat who does paperwork

   Broaderbureaucratclerk

Questions about paper-pusher

What does paper-pusher mean?

paper-pusher means "a clerk or bureaucrat who does paperwork".

How many syllables are in paper-pusher?

paper-pusher has 4 syllables and divides as pa-per--pu-sher under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is paper-pusher a common word?

paper-pusher is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.