Meaning of pencil pusher | Babel Free

Definitions

One who does routine office work; someone involved mainly in paperwork.

derogatory, informal, often

Equivalents

Examples

““[…] I don't have her creative genius or her version. I'm a numbers man, like my father. A pencil pusher, as Amanda said.” With no balls, he added silently.”

“The internal investigator for the Macon Police Department had the dour, lifeless personality of a career pencil pusher.”

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