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  • noun informal, often derogatory A person who performs routine office work, involving mainly paperwork.

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Examples

  • I wish I could share it with you, but then my fellow villagers might be inclined to tar and feather a certain pauvre type whomistook a certain pauvre pen-pusher for a hooker.

    French Word-A-Day: 2010

  • I wish I could share it with you, but then my fellow villagers might be inclined to tar and feather a certain pauvre type whomistook a certain pauvre pen-pusher for a hooker.

    brouillon - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • The most dramatic of these conflicts was that fought out in the eastern provinces ca. 319-16 between Antigonus and Eumenes, the despised Greek pen-pusher who proved himself the finest general of them all and was only defeated when his own troops sold him to Antigonus in return for their captured baggage-train.

    Babylonian Dreaming Peter Green 2011

  • I wish I could share it with you, but then my fellow villagers might be inclined to tar and feather a certain pauvre type whomistook a certain pauvre pen-pusher for a hooker.

    French Word-A-Day: 2010

  • I wish I could share it with you, but then my fellow villagers might be inclined to tar and feather a certain pauvre type whomistook a certain pauvre pen-pusher for a hooker.

    brouillon - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • "I can't have my relationship with Will Riker known to every little pen-pusher in Starfleet."

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • Pizza Patrón\'s Peso policy perturbs political persuader and part-time pen-pusher Doc Farmer, as he outlines his concerns. '

    Pizza Patr�n's Peculiar Pecuniary Peso-Paying Predicament 2007

  • I first noticed this trend in Liverpool, but it's far more prevalent in London, gripping even the highest of the lowliest middle management pen-pusher.

    Syntax deductible Alistair Myles 2006

  • I first noticed this trend in Liverpool, but it's far more prevalent in London, gripping even the highest of the lowliest middle management pen-pusher.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Alistair Myles 2006

  • You come out of university a pen-pusher and they bump you straight up through the ranks!

    Above Suspicion Lynda La Plante 2004

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