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paperwork

paperwork

English

Noun

paperwork ‎(uncountable)

routine work involving written documents
written documents
(hyperbolic) excessive paperwork, busy work, red tape.

Synonyms

Translations

work involving written documents

Armenian:
Catalan: paperassa f, paperada f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 文書工作, 文书工作 ‎(wénshū gōngzuò), 公文處理, 公文处理 ‎(gōngwén chǔlǐ)
Esperanto: paperoj (eo) pl
Finnish: paperityöt, paperisota (fi)
French: tâches administratives f pl
German: Schreibarbeit f
Japanese: 事務処理 ‎(じむしょり, jimushori), 文書業務 ‎(もんじょぎょうむ, monjo gyōmu)
Khmer:

Korean:
Mongolian:
Norwegian:

Bokmål: papirarbeid n

Nynorsk: papirarbeid n
Portuguese: papelada (pt) f
Russian: канцеля́рская рабо́та f ‎(kanceljárskaja rabóta), делопроизво́дство (ru) n ‎(deloproizvódstvo)
Spanish: papeleo (es) m
Thai:
Vietnamese:

written documents

excessive paperwork

Persian: کاغذبازی (fa) ‎(kâğaz-bâzi)

References

“paperwork” in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Online.
“paperwork”, in TheFreeDictionary.com, Farlex, Inc., 2003–2016.