bookwork

Noun

1. Accounting work; book keeping.
   • The tax officials seized documents that Tony Hachem said related to a company for which he'd done unpaid bookwork about five years ago. - 2009 March 27, Kelvin Healey, “Poker pro Tony Hachem slams ATO tax raid”, in...
2. The art and science of formatting books.
   • The development of a typesetting program suite for general bookwork calls for very close cooperation between typographer and programmer. - 1976, Jack Belzer, Albert G. Holzman, Allen Kent, Encyclopedia of Computer...
3. Work done with the aid of textbooks.
   • The diagram indicates in some degree the relative amount of oral work as compared with bookwork in our best schools. - 2008, Joseph Baldwin, School Management and School Methods:
4. The act of memorising information; used attributively to describe or denote questions that test information learned rather than requiring additional thought.
   • 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. - 1852, Charles Astor Bristed, Five years in an English...