Synonyms for paperwork
ˈpeɪ pərˌwɜrkpa·per·work

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1. paperworknoun

   Synonyms:
   busy work, administrivia, administrativia, red tape

2. paperworknoun

   A clerical task or set of tasks involving routine written work; busy work; red tape.

   Synonyms:
   administrativia, administrivia, busy work, red tape

3. paperworknoun

   Excessive, intricate or meticulous work with documents in an unnecessary and incidental way to more important tasks.

   Synonyms:
   busy work, administrivia, red tape, administrativia

Princeton's WordNet

1. paperworknoun

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

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1. • Work

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1. List of paraphrases for "paperwork":

   bureaucracy, papers, tape, paper, documentation, papiers, documents

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1. Johanna Talcott:

   If they are concerned that he was not complying with the reporting compliance, they did not note it on the paperwork at the time of the seizure, what they are doing now is Monday morning quarterbacking. They're getting a little bit of heat, getting a little bit of attention, and are trying to make him look bad.

2. George Santos:

   My grandfather was born in Kyivand left in the late 20s and migrated to Belgium where he met my grandmother and then started a family, we don’t carry the Ukrainian last name, for a lot of people who are descendants of World War II refuges or survivors of the Holocaust, a lot of names or paperwork were changed in the name of survival.

3. Brad Moss:

   This largely can be handled with just some extra paperwork and security briefings.

4. Natural Resources Michael Miltenberger:

   We have to not only have the proper infrastructure for managing the processes and the paperwork, but we also need to make sure we clean up our own things, like land claims, so that industry knows ... there's land available.

5. Trod Sandven:

   They're brand new, with the plastic still on the seats. The only thing we do is the paperwork.