paperwork

About 1.84 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Routine work involving written documents.

   do paperwork

2. noun Written documents.
3. noun Excessive paperwork, busy work, red tape.
4. noun Court documents or pre-sentencing investigation reports detailing the prisoner's criminal history (usually in the context of discerning whether an inmate has been charged for sex-related offenses or is likely to be an informant).

   to have bad paperwork

5. noun A work in paper.

Similar words

administration administrative papers bureaucratic bureaucracy backgrounder document contract documentation dossier

Often followed by

and reduction to for is that in on was

Word family

paperworks