We were bogged down in a morass of paperwork.
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Paperwork
//ˈpeɪ.pɚˌwɝk//
Synonyms for "paperwork" (6 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Noun(1 words)
Strong matches (1)
Related words (3)
Noun(2 words)
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2 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesat location
4 entriesderived from
2 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
1 entriesreceives action
1 entriesrelated to
7 entriesTranslations
42 translations across 20 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- писмена работа noun (work involving written documents)
Catalan
2 entries- paperada noun (work involving written documents)
- paperassa noun (work involving written documents)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 公文 noun (written documents)
- 公文處理 /公文处理 noun (work involving written documents)
- 文件 noun (written documents)
- 文書 /文书 noun (written documents)
Esperanto
1 entries- paperoj noun (work involving written documents)
Finnish
2 entries- paperisota noun (work involving written documents)
- paperityöt noun (work involving written documents)
French
1 entries- tâches administratives noun (work involving written documents)
German
3 entries- Papierkram noun (work involving written documents)
- Papierkram noun (excessive paperwork)
- Schreibarbeit noun (work involving written documents)
Indonesian
2 entries- kertas kerja noun (work involving written documents)
- kertas kerja noun (written documents)
Italian
3 entries- documentazione noun (written documents)
- fascicolo noun (written documents)
- lavoro di documentazione noun (work involving written documents)
Japanese
2 entries- 事務処理 noun (work involving written documents)
- 文書業務 noun (work involving written documents)
Malay
2 entries- kertas kerja noun (work involving written documents)
- kertas kerja noun (written documents)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- papirarbeid noun (work involving written documents)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- papirarbeid noun (work involving written documents)
Occitan
1 entries- paperalha noun (work involving written documents)
Persian
1 entries- کاغذبازی noun (excessive paperwork)
Polish
4 entries- papierkowa robota noun (work involving written documents)
- papierkowa robota noun (excessive paperwork)
- papierologia noun (work involving written documents)
- papierologia noun (excessive paperwork)
Portuguese
3 entries- papelada noun (work involving written documents)
- papelada noun (written documents)
- papelada noun (excessive paperwork)
Russian
2 entries- делопроизво́дство noun (work involving written documents)
- канцеля́рская рабо́та noun (work involving written documents)
Spanish
1 entries- papeleo noun (work involving written documents)
Swedish
2 entries- pappersarbete noun (work involving written documents)
- pappersjobb noun (work involving written documents)
Sample sentences
21 total sentences available.
They took away all of our paperwork.
Source: tatoeba (437397)
I'm behind in my paperwork.
Source: tatoeba (680352)
She spends over a third of her time doing paperwork.
Source: tatoeba (909561)
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