Wiktionary
alt. (context informal often derogatory English) A person who performs routine office work, involving mainly paperwork. n. (context informal often derogatory English) A person who performs routine office work, involving mainly paperwork.
Usage examples of "pen-pusher".
The pen-pusher was self-indulgent and bombastic, Gorgidas thought, but he was a diplomat, too.
The Emperor went on, "When I set you over the cadasters, outlander, I thought you would be watching the pen-pushers, but it seems you flushed a noble instead.
The Empire had been stronger when it relied on its freeholding peasantry than now, with the provincial nobles at odds with the pen-pushers in the capital, and with the state's defenses in the hands of unreliable mercenaries like the Namdaleni—or the Romans.
The pen-pusher was far more broad-minded there, though to him the plainsmen were so many savages.
By that time His Loftiness the Ambassador is in the galley busily cooking for the prisoners and is being assisted by a disconcerted bunch of yessing pen-pushers.