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make-work

[ meyk-wurk ]

noun

  1. work, usually of little importance, created to keep a person from being idle or unemployed.


make-work

  1. Publicly provided employment that is designed primarily to relieve unemployment and only incidentally to accomplish important tasks. If private employers are hiring few people because of a business slump, the government can “make work” for people to do.
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of make-work1

1935–40, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase make work
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Example Sentences

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These are unpaid and powerless groups, often formed to avoid real change by giving make-work to activists and donors.

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“There’s no Hoover Dam or Lincoln Tunnel on the other side of this nonsense spending. Just Potemkin jobs and a new make-work program when there’s plenty of work to go around,” he said.

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A similar move here and bam – debt would be paid, make-work tolls could be gone, Seattle waterfront saved.

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“But it’s hard not to conclude that some shuttle missions have felt like make-work projects undertaken more to keep astronauts in orbit rather than because they were essential.”

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Kagan suggested the “make-work” requirement was simply an attempt to try to make it harder for the convicted to get relief from federal courts.

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