English
pencil pusher
Noun

pencil pusher (plural pencil pushers)

  1. (informal, often, derogatory) One who does routine office work; someone involved mainly in paperwork.
    Synonyms: office worker, bureaucrat, desk jockey, paper-pusher, pen-pusher
    • 2012, Danielle Steel, The Sins of the Mother, Random House (ISBN 9781409093183), page 285:
      “ […] I don't have her creative genius or her version. I'm a numbers man, like my father. A pencil pusher, as Amanda said.” With no balls, he added silently.
    • 2013, Karin Slaughter, Busted, Random House (ISBN 9781448184828)
      The internal investigator for the Macon Police Department had the dour, lifeless personality of a career pencil pusher.
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