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paper-pusher

n. clerk or bureaucrat (especially one with a routine job)

WordNet
paper-pusher

n. a clerk or bureaucrat who does paperwork

Usage examples of "paper-pusher".

Blaine was a pure po-gue, a guy who got himself promoted off the street as soon as he became eligible, and had immediately latched on to the coattails of his predecessor, a bloodless, bean-counting Yuppie paper-pusher named Spier.

Duke Zolkir could have taken out the entire roomful with no help from his Guild swordswomen, but Paper-Pushers didn't go in for that kind of battle.

As long as they had a brain somewhere behind their alien eyes, could hunt and peck on their computer terminal and didn't short out communications wiring with their drool, they were prime paper-pusher material.