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paperwork

[pay-per-wurk] / ˈpeɪ pərˌwɜrk /
NOUN
office work
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Talking to the client is necessary to get all the information needed for that paperwork; you can’t do something without talking to your client.

From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2026

It took only a few days for a Hawaii journalist to discover Kao’s wife’s name on the society’s paperwork, linking the shell company to Navatek.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

Barker describes her impending split as “a slow untangling, a divorce in the stages before the paperwork is filed.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

In other cases, AI is reducing the burden of paperwork facing frontline health and support staff.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

She pointed to an impressive but imitation oak desk at which sat a prissy, tiny, bespectacled individual, merged with his plethora of paperwork.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick



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