paperwork

CEFRB1

/ˈpeɪ.pɚˌwɝk/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    Documents and forms needed for official or business tasks.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Excessive paperwork, busy work, red tape.

Examples

  • They took away all of our paperwork.

  • We were bogged down in a morass of paperwork.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
2

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Written documents.

  2. Routine work involving written documents.

  3. A work in paper.

More examples

In context

  • to have bad paperwork

  • do paperwork

  • The source stated that the alleged victims wanted the paperwork released after the settlement, but with names and identifiers removed.

Synonyms

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

The job required filling out a mountain of blank for the federal government.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

From paper + work.