Synonyms for pen-pusher
- noun
Most common
Definitions
- n. 1
A person who performs routine office work, involving mainly paperwork.
"I had to prove to people who were unimportant, who'd never achieved anything in their lives—the administrator, the pen-pusher—that I could fight."
Related words
- Other spellings
- pen pusher penpusher
Forms
- Plural
- pen-pushers → bureaucrats…
Example sentences
- bureaucrat Tom isn't your typical bureaucrat.
By length
- 10 letters
- bureaucrat3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (bureaucrat3 = 3 syllables).