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Make-work   /meɪk-wərk/   Listen
Make-work

noun
1.
Active work of little value.  Synonym: busywork.






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"Make-work" Quotes from Famous Books



... his feet again and began storming up and down the room. "A full three quarters of our employed working at nothing jobs, gobbledygook jobs, non-producing jobs, make-work jobs, red-tape bureaucracy jobs. At a time when the nation is supposedly in a breakneck economic competition with the Soviet Complex, we put our best brains into advertising, entertainment and sales, while they put ...
— Subversive • Dallas McCord Reynolds



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