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Definition of pencil-pusher in English English dictionary
- Alternative form of pencil pusher
- One who does routine office work; someone involved mainly in paperwork
- disapproval If you call someone a pencil pusher, you mean that their work consists of writing or dealing with documents, and does not seem very useful or important. the pencil pushers who decide the course of people's lives. = bureaucrat. One whose job involves writing and other paperwork. someone who has a boring, unimportant job in an office