PAPERWORK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does paperwork mean? 

• PAPERWORK (noun)
  The noun PAPERWORK has 1 sense:

1. work that involves handling papers: forms or letters or reports etc.

  Familiarity information: PAPERWORK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAPERWORK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Work that involves handling papers: forms or letters or reports etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("paperwork" is a kind of...):

work (activity directed toward making or doing something)

 Context examples 

In these examples, you see the need for preparation and paperwork.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

An employee charged with the general administrative responsibilities of any given office of a corporation or business, responsible for all paperwork, including its filing and retention over time, and the supervision of office staff.

(Office Manager, NCI Thesaurus)

Your chart suggests you will seal the commitment with paperwork to make things official, and if you do, wait two days until March 11.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Mercury will retrograde from February 16 to March 9, so get all your most important paperwork done early in the month.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Mars will also give you the motivation to have the paperwork ready for your accountant to calculate your tax return.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Additionally, Saturn is known to slow things down and pile on a lot of paperwork, creating the situation you may have been dealing with lately.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Demand paperwork and backup if necessary, and if the other person resists, that’s a sign he or she has to go.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

If you have been meaning to put your savings into a retirement account or write a will, this would be an ideal time to organize all your paperwork.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Your timing is perfect—you will soon be distracted with exciting career developments, and when that happens, you won’t want to deal with paperwork.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It’s a perfect month to allow yourself some slack, to catch up on paperwork, and to strategize for the coming year.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)