Usually means: Bureaucrat performing routine clerical work.
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  1. pen pusher: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pen pusher: Merriam-Webster
  3. pen-pusher: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pen pusher: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. pen-pusher, pen pusher: Wiktionary
  6. pen pusher: Dictionary.com
  7. Pen Pusher: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. Pen pusher: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Pen pusher)

▸ noun:  Alternative form of pen-pusher [(informal, often derogatory) A person who performs routine office work, involving mainly paperwork.]

Similar:
penpusher, pen-pusher, pencil-pusher, pencil pusher, pencil pushing, paper-pusher, pen-driver, penmaker, pusher, quill-driver, more...

Opposite:
hands-on, active, practical, fieldworker

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Similar:
penpusher, pen-pusher, pencil-pusher, pencil pusher, pencil pushing, paper-pusher, pen-driver, penmaker, pusher, quill-driver, more...

Opposite:
hands-on, active, practical, fieldworker



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