Slang
papers mean money.
Everybody wants papers.
Papers
A collection of letters, diaries, and other writings, especially by one person.
Papers
Paper
noun
Short-term debt instruments, especially commercial paper.
A newspaper
A Wallpaper
Slang
A free pass to a theater.
On paper
The design certainly looks good on paper.
paper refers to a newspaper, we don't say sheet or piece: I saw an article about losing weight in the paper. The same is true if the word refers to an academic paper Have you read Shigeto Kawahara's new paper about geminate devoicing in Japanese?
Idioms:
on paper
1. In writing or print.
2. In theory, as opposed to actual performance or fact: It is a good team on paper, but its members play poorly together.
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