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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1917 routine clerical or record-keeping work often incidental to a more important task

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. routine clerical or administrative work.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Paperwork is the routine part of a job which involves writing or dealing with letters, reports, and records. At every stage in the production there will be paperwork–forms to fill in, permissions to obtain, letters to write.