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Synonyms for paperwork
ˈpeɪ pərˌwɜrkpa·per·work

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Wiktionary3.0 / 1 vote

  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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PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "paperwork":

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

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#1627papers
#1876documentation
#2565tape
#13754paperwork
#19873bureaucracy
#48406administrivia
#153221papiers

How to use paperwork in a sentence?

  1. Ayako Nakayama:

    A change in Happy New Era '' may happen only once in our life time, so it's a happy day, and I wanted my child also to be present at that moment, i hope this is a peaceful era where everyone can live with smiling faces.' . Elsewhere, couples wanting to register their marriages as soon as the Reiwa era began at midnight had lined up at government offices, which set special desks for the paperwork. For 29-year-old Kenya Fujisaki, the move was mostly practical.

  2. Mark Chernev:

    The only thing that we’re asking in consideration is that she sign the condo conversion paperwork.

  3. Chip Englander:

    America has intractable problems and it’s going to take a transformational leader to fix them, rand Paul is going to be the bold, transformational figure in this race. The reported hire comes as Paul's potential rivals for the Republican nomination begin jostling for position. The Washington Post reported Monday that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the GOP's nominee in 2012, had begun reaching out to former advisers, donors, and allies about the possibility of a third presidential bid. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who filed paperwork to form a political action committee last week, will travel to California later this week for fundraising events. A memo sent to Rand Paul donors and allies touted Englander as a man who had helped elect a Republican governor in President Barack Obama's home state, which the president.

  4. Johnson Johnson:

    This idea that you have to ‘ opt in ’ sounds really, really, good, but when you start to think about benefits, when you start to think about the amount of paperwork people fill out when they join a company, nobody understands everything they are opting in to, so, that is n’t really a protection.

  5. Michael Head:

    In between pandemic times, we must learn lessons about improving infrastructure for research across low and lower-middle income settings, we need several large hubs, manufacturing sites across Africa and Southeast Asia and South America that are able to develop at large scale vaccines and diagnostics and therapeutics, and with the paperwork in place as well.


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