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paper shuffler

NOUN
clerk
Synonyms
STRONGEST
agent auditor bookkeeper cashier employee operator receptionist salesperson secretary teller worker
STRONG
amanuensis copyist counterperson notary recorder registrar seller stenographer transcriber
WEAK
counter jumper office helper paper pusher pen pusher pencil pusher shopperson white collar

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Although some critics, including a number of top military men, dismiss him as "a good paper shuffler" and as Kissinger's errand boy within the White House, Scowcroft is hardly an automaton.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hero Brad is a paper shuffler at SHAEF, and a first lieutenant.

From Time Magazine Archive

If Chernenko's thoughts have ever differed from Brezhnev's on any issue, he has kept quiet about it; one Western diplomat in Moscow refers to him as Brezhnev's "paper shuffler."

From Time Magazine Archive

There isn't a month that goes by that some paper shuffler like me doesn't inquire, 'How're you coming along?'

From Time Magazine Archive