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noun

paperwork

CEFR B2

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

In a sentence

Six example sentences with paperwork, each labelled with its topic.

  • The clerk spent all morning on paperwork, stamping affidavits and filing motions that never once reached a courtroom.

    Law

  • Border officials handed us three forms each, and the paperwork took longer than the ferry crossing itself.

    Travel

  • Two founders spent their first month on incorporation paperwork instead of code, filing forms with three different agencies.

    Startups

  • Doctors now spend two hours on paperwork for every three with patients, the survey of clinics found.

    Medicine

  • The mortgage paperwork ran to sixty pages, and the bank rejected it twice over a missing initial.

    Finance

  • Planning paperwork for the extension took longer than the build, with four forms for the roof alone.

    Architecture

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