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What is a jobsworth?

What is a jobsworth? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (chiefly Britain) A minor worker who refuses to be flexible in the application of rules to help a client or customer.
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I feel as if a day of my working life or living life has been taken away by someone who is a jobsworth.
It's just a shame he's inherited such a bunch of jobsworth twerps underneath him.
I resent some jobsworth thinking I'd blagged my way on to the practice ground.
He appears to have won that battle because fire safety officers are much more sensible, but there is no defeating the jobsworth.
This bore was regaling anyone who cared to listen with the story of how an officious jobsworth had refused him admission to some function or other.
If he had been a jobsworth he would have gone home but he stayed there for six or eight hours and got no extra pay.

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