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Make-work   /meɪk-wərk/   Listen
noun
make-work  n.  Active work of litle value, such as assignments given by teachers to students to keep them busy while the teacher performs other tasks, or chores performed to while away time; also called busywork.
Synonyms: busywork.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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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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