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Noun: bookwork
  1. Keeping of accounts; bookkeeping work
    "The accountant spent hours on bookwork to prepare for the audit"
     
  2. Study, testing or knowledge of standard definitions and other material that appears in text books, rather than new or practical problems
    "the exam question was entirely bookwork"

Derived forms: bookworks

Encyclopedia: Bookwork