paper bank
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Also see: bank
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
paper/ˈpeɪpə(r)/
▶noun
- 1 material manufactured in thin sheets from the pulp of wood or other fibrous substances, used for writing or printing on or as wrapping material.
■ (papers) sheets of paper covered with writing or printing; documents.
■ [as modifier] officially documented but having no real existence or use: a paper profit.
- 2 a newspaper.
- 3 a government report or policy document.
- 4 an essay or dissertation read at a seminar or published in a journal.
- 5 Brit. a set of examination questions to be answered at one session.
■ the written answers to such questions.
- 6 theatrical slang free passes of admission to a theatre or other entertainment.
- 1 cover with wallpaper.
■ (paper something over) disguise an awkward problem instead of resolving it.
- 2 theatrical slang fill (a theatre) by giving out free tickets.
– phrases
on paper
on paper
- 1 in writing.
- 2 in theory rather than in reality.
– derivatives
paperer noun,
paperless adjective,
papery adjective.
paperer noun,
paperless adjective,
papery adjective.
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