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What is a paper-pusher?

What is a paper-pusher? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. clerk or bureaucrat (especially one with a routine job)
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I ask myself, what was the reason I became a nurse and it wasn't to be a secretary and paper-pusher, but that is what I am becoming.
He was basically a paper-pusher, collecting press clippings in Dresden while the East German Stasi did the real dirty work of recruiting informers and policing dissent.
I was getting less opportunity to fly as I moved up the ranks, and was more of a paper-pusher.
As a business driven by clear-cut processes and the need for very specific, wordy documents, insurance has always been known as the realm of the proverbial paper-pusher.
He wants to wander round like a manual worker, all masculine and exposed to the elements, when in fact he's just a soft-bellied paper-pusher.
Arthur was an M. I.5 paper-pusher of the old school: a meticulous, unadventurous, nine-to-six loyalist, with no ambitions to become what he was not.

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