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[ pey-per-wurk ] / ˈpeɪ pərˌwɜrk / SEE SYNONYMS FOR paperwork ON THESAURUS.COM
nounwritten or clerical work, as records or reports, forming a necessary but often a routine and secondary part of some work or job. Origin of paperworkFirst recorded in 1580–90; paper + work Words nearby paperworkpaper trail, paper-train, paper wasp, paperweight, paper-white narcissus, paperwork, papery, papeterie, Paphian, Paphian Goddess, Paphlagonia Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for paperworkWhen he was first incarcerated, he says some sort of paperwork snafu had him imprisoned under two different, but similar, names. His First Day Out Of Jail After 40 Years: Adjusting To Life Outside|Justin Rohrlich|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST The paperwork was spotless: he had died in transit, the conjunction of a weak heart and long trip. A Million Ways to Die in Prison|Daniel Genis|December 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST He also expanded on the need to get the average American out from under the blizzard of paperwork that the tax season brings. Huckabee: ‘A Tax Is Punishment’|Lloyd Green|September 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST Meanwhile, as if to keep the paperwork straight, the separatist government in Donetsk has formally introduced the death penalty. A Torture Survivor on Ukraine's Tortured Ceasefire|Anna Nemtsova|September 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Even the gentiles who sincerely try to practice the faith are considered ‘self declared’ in their paperwork. A Jewish Ex-Con Recalls Keeping Kosher with the Faithful in Prison|Daniel Genis|May 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST There's a lot of paperwork to such a sale, and it's all handled by the company. The Risk Profession|Donald Edwin Westlake He sat down again and buried himself in paperwork, trying to avoid the edge of an old fear. Watchbird|Robert Sheckley And then I waited around for ten days until the company finished the paperwork involved in buying that claim from me. The Risk Profession|Donald Edwin Westlake During my Administration we cut the paperwork burden by 15 percent, and we created procedures to continue this progress. Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to 2006|Various For your information, gangster, all officers do a tour of duty on paperwork before they're assigned to their permanent branch. The Syndic|C.M. Kornbluth
British Dictionary definitions for paperwork
nounclerical work, such as the completion of forms or the writing of reports or letters Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to paperworkfiling, administration, typing, desk work |