Usually means: Bureaucrat performing routine clerical work.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. pencil pusher: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pencil pusher: Merriam-Webster
  3. pencil pusher: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pencil pusher: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pencil pusher: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pencil pusher: Vocabulary.com
  7. pencil pusher: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pencil-pusher, pencil pusher: Wiktionary
  9. pencil pusher: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. pencil pusher: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. pencil pusher: Dictionary.com
  12. pencil pusher: Rhymezone
  13. pencil pusher: FreeDictionary.org
  14. pencil pusher: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. pencil pusher: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pencil pusher: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. pencil pusher: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pencil pusher)

▸ noun:  (informal, often derogatory) One who does routine office work; someone involved mainly in paperwork.

Similar:
penpusher, pencil-pusher, pen-pusher, pen pusher, paper-pusher, functionary, desk jockey, office worker, deskperson, deskworker, more...

Opposite:
hands-on worker, blue-collar worker, manual laborer

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Similar:
penpusher, pencil-pusher, pen-pusher, pen pusher, paper-pusher, functionary, desk jockey, office worker, deskperson, deskworker, more...

Opposite:
hands-on worker, blue-collar worker, manual laborer



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