bookwork

noun

1. (uncountable)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.”

2. (uncountable)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.”

3. (uncountable)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.”

4. (uncountable)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.”