Hence, in current use. One employed in a subordinate position in a public or private office, shop, warehouse, etc., to make written entries, keep…

A subordinate writer or clerk.

In southern India: an Indian clerk or writer.

A clerk.

A Hindu man, esp. one of relatively high status; (in Anglo-Indian use during the British Raj) an Indian man (esp. a Bengali) who has had a…

A clerk; a (low-level) bureaucrat. Also: a writer, a hack. Frequently derogatory. Cf. pencil pusher n. at pencil, n. compounds 2.

= pen-pusher, n.

A clerk, a secretary; a person whose work includes the keeping of written records.

colloquial (originally U.S.). A person whose job involves a great deal of paperwork; esp. (a) an office worker who has routine, unimportant…