Bookwork

Origin

book + work

Full definition of bookwork

Noun

1. Accounts, book keeping work
• 2009, March 27, Kelvin Healey, Poker pro Tony Hachem slams ATO tax raid , The tax officials seized documents that Tony Hachem said related to a company for which he'd done unpaid bookwork about five years ago.
2. The art and science of formatting books.
• 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.
3. Work done with the aid of textbooks
• Joseph Baldwin, School Management and School Methods, The diagram indicates in some degree the relative amount of oral work as compared with bookwork in our best schools.
4. (chiefly w, University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge) The act of memorising information; used attributively to describe or denote questions that test information learned rather than requiring additional thought
• Charles Astor Bristed, Five years in an English university, 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.

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• workbook