bookwork

English

From book +‎ work.

bookwork (uncountable)

Accounting work; book keeping.
- 2009 March 27, Kelvin Healey, “Poker pro Tony Hachem slams ATO tax raid”, in Herald Sun‎^[1]:
  The tax officials seized documents that Tony Hachem said related to a company for which he'd done unpaid bookwork about five years ago.
The art and science of formatting books.
- 1976, Jack Belzer, Albert G. Holzman, Allen Kent, Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology: Volume 5:
  The development of a typesetting program suite for general bookwork calls for very close cooperation between typographer and programmer.
Work done with the aid of textbooks.
- 2008, Joseph Baldwin, School Management and School Methods‎^[2]:
  The diagram indicates in some degree the relative amount of oral work as compared with bookwork in our best schools.
(chiefly University of Cambridge) The act of memorising information; used attributively to describe or denote questions that test information learned rather than requiring additional thought.
- 1852, Charles Astor Bristed, Five years in an English university‎^[3]:
  The proportion of problems to bookwork done by the candidates is very various. The latter shows more reading, the former evince more natural Mathematical ability.