pen pusher

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someone who has a boring unimportant job in an office
A person who performs routine office work, involving mainly paperwork

Investors may have a lopsided view of the company’s reputation simply because an uncaring pen pusher in the finance department responded lethargically to an investor’s query.

disapproval If you call someone a pen-pusher, you mean that their work consists of writing or dealing with documents, and does not seem very useful or important. As a result, industry was overmanned and pen-pushers were everywhere. = bureaucrat
penpusher
a clerk who does boring paperwork
pen pusher

    Hyphenation

    pen push·er

    Turkish pronunciation

    pen pûşır

    Pronunciation

    /ˈpen ˈpo͝osʜər/ /ˈpɛn ˈpʊʃɜr/
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