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. David Payne:

   If … Christie or Kasich decide to get in the race, they would instantly command more attention and more money than most of the individuals who have already filed their official paperwork, late summer 2015 will clear up all this confusion about who’s actually running and who our top candidates are in the early primary states. ... If you’re a candidate who’s still playing it coy in August, it will be too late for you.

2. Seth Moulton:

   I made it clear that the( Special Immigrant Visa) program was not sufficient. No matter how much we expanded it what was needed was an immediate evacuation. And that has been my distinct clear call to the administration for several months now, you need to evacuate our allies. Sort out the paperwork once you get these heroes to safety. And they have not headed that call.

3. Blair Miller:

   We're having a hard time understanding it all right now, we're retracing every bit of paperwork we were ever given to try to understand what the situation was … because there are a lot of serious questions.

4. Mark Takano:

   This resolution really would present an unduly burdensome and pointless paperwork exercise for VA and will ultimately reveal nothing that is not already known about VA’s wait time calculations.

5. San Francisco:

   This mini horse is a service animal, and the owner provided paperwork to a station agent stating so, after consultation (station agents usually dont see horses), the horse was allowed in.