Synonyms for paperwork
ˈpeɪ pərˌwɜrkpa·per·work

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1. paperworknoun

   Synonyms:
   busy work, administrivia, administrativia, red tape

2. paperworknoun

   A clerical task or set of tasks involving routine written work; busy work; red tape.

   Synonyms:
   administrativia, administrivia, busy work, red tape

3. paperworknoun

   Excessive, intricate or meticulous work with documents in an unnecessary and incidental way to more important tasks.

   Synonyms:
   busy work, administrivia, red tape, administrativia

Princeton's WordNet

1. paperworknoun

   work that involves handling papers: forms or letters or reports etc.

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1. • Work

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1. List of paraphrases for "paperwork":

   bureaucracy, papers, tape, paper, documentation, papiers, documents

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1. Chris Perez:

   Once I felt satisfied with what I found, I downloaded the paperwork and I sent it in.

2. David Payne:

   If … Christie or Kasich decide to get in the race, they would instantly command more attention and more money than most of the individuals who have already filed their official paperwork, late summer 2015 will clear up all this confusion about who’s actually running and who our top candidates are in the early primary states. ... If you’re a candidate who’s still playing it coy in August, it will be too late for you.

3. Sajad Jiyad:

   They realize that now is the time ... to get the respect that they should have from the politicians and formalize their relations with the state, get their funding sources sorted, get their paperwork in order, take care of their guys, their injured.

4. Jose Villarruel:

   I decided the school situation has changed completely and I believed that a job of a substitute was over, in May, I submitted my resignation. I managed to do all of the paperwork, all of the arrangements to get my pension. I got my check, but that check didn't last long because I had debts already.

5. John Sopko:

   When we talk about the lack of cooperation by DoD, we’ve got emails, and we’ve got memo traffic to support everything we said about their lack of cooperation, i know one nameless, faceless bureaucrat in the Pentagon said, ‘Oh, well, somebody came over once.’ No, no, we have the paperwork.