pencil pusher

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   a clerk who does boring paperwork

   Synonymspenpusher

   Broaderclerk

Questions about pencil pusher

What does pencil pusher mean?

pencil pusher means "a clerk who does boring paperwork".

What is another word for pencil pusher?

Close synonyms include penpusher. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pencil pusher a common word?

pencil 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.