pencil

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pen|cil /p'ensəl/ (pencils pencilling pencilled)
1 [N-COUNT] also in N
A pencil is an object that you write or draw with. It consists of a thin piece of wood with a rod of a black or coloured substance through the middle. If you write or draw something in pencil, you do it using a pencil.
I found a pencil and some blank paper in her desk...
He had written her a note in pencil.
2 [VERB] V n to n
If you pencil a letter or a note, you write it using a pencil.
He pencilled a note to Joseph Daniels.
● pencilled [ADJ]
...folded notepaper with the pencilled block letters on the outside.pencil in
[PHRASAL VERB] usu passive, be V-ed P
If an event or appointment is pencilled in, it has been agreed that it should take place, but it will have to be confirmed later.
He told us that the tour was pencilled in for the following March.pen|cil push|er (pencil pushers)
[N-COUNT]
If you call someone a pencil pusher, you mean that their work consists of writing or dealing with documents, and does not seem very useful or important. (AM; in BRIT, use pen-pusher)
...the pencil pushers who decide the course of people's lives.
= bureaucrat

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