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Definition of make-work in English: make-workadjective North American Denoting an activity that serves mainly to keep someone busy and is of little value in itself. a make-work scheme for lawyers Example sentencesExamples - It's a great make-work system, but it serves patients and their families very poorly.
- I don't really care much about Dr. Corday's lovelife, and the boxes in the admissions area seemed like a make-work project for the writers as well as the characters.
- Congress got busy spending money on New Deal legislation, creating make-work programs to try to end the Depression.
- Ironically, it is Debra Winger herself who points out the true purpose of the film - it's a make-work project for Arquette.
- He may be a wash-out as an MLA, but all by himself, he's served as a one-man make-work project for northern lawyers.
- We also know that the public service has expanded dramatically, and I suggest that there are a lot of make-work jobs there.
- Real training for real tourism jobs, rather than make-work programs for the unemployed or unemployable.
- The amount of responsibility that Bennett gives to undergraduates who work for him is unusual - no make-work tasks.
- The level on which Jason X does succeed, however, is as an ongoing make-work program for talentless young actors.
- Orewa at one level has become a make-work scheme for the news media.
- Yes, I can't see that there's any call for this sort of make-work activity!
- They are a non-productive, consuming society, employed in make-work services, which have no intrinsic value.
- The people who were put on make-work schemes were less likely than others to find jobs.
- I would like to shake the hand of the genius of this make-work brainchild.
- For a thousand bucks an hour, I'd do make-work all day long - aye, and all night too!
- As we can all see now, their actual purpose, apparently, is to create three juicy make-work projects for Nunavut's ailing construction industry.
- Since then, she has gotten by with make-work schemes and retraining programs.
- Occasionally he puts in time on a government-funded make-work scheme.
- Public investment needn't be a make-work proposition.
- No matter how desperately governments try to create jobs by fancy make-work schemes, unemployment becomes chronic.
noun mass nounNorth American Make-work activity. leftists are accused of scholarly make-work in studying obscure authors Example sentencesExamples - They are also masters of make-work, bureaucracy, and Kafkaism.
- Martins's two short ballets, both to John Adams music, are unabashed make-work.
- One is inclined to dismiss all this as product of institutional delusion or bureaucratic make-work.
- The figures for the latter, however, did not take into account those who were involved in make-work and re-education programs.
- Then they give the companies all kinds of make-work in exchange.
Definition of make-work in US English: make-workadjectiveˈmeɪk ˌwərk North American Denoting an activity that serves mainly to keep someone busy and is of little value in itself. a make-work scheme for lawyers Example sentencesExamples - Real training for real tourism jobs, rather than make-work programs for the unemployed or unemployable.
- Congress got busy spending money on New Deal legislation, creating make-work programs to try to end the Depression.
- He may be a wash-out as an MLA, but all by himself, he's served as a one-man make-work project for northern lawyers.
- We also know that the public service has expanded dramatically, and I suggest that there are a lot of make-work jobs there.
- As we can all see now, their actual purpose, apparently, is to create three juicy make-work projects for Nunavut's ailing construction industry.
- Ironically, it is Debra Winger herself who points out the true purpose of the film - it's a make-work project for Arquette.
- Occasionally he puts in time on a government-funded make-work scheme.
- For a thousand bucks an hour, I'd do make-work all day long - aye, and all night too!
- The amount of responsibility that Bennett gives to undergraduates who work for him is unusual - no make-work tasks.
- Orewa at one level has become a make-work scheme for the news media.
- Yes, I can't see that there's any call for this sort of make-work activity!
- Since then, she has gotten by with make-work schemes and retraining programs.
- It's a great make-work system, but it serves patients and their families very poorly.
- They are a non-productive, consuming society, employed in make-work services, which have no intrinsic value.
- The people who were put on make-work schemes were less likely than others to find jobs.
- No matter how desperately governments try to create jobs by fancy make-work schemes, unemployment becomes chronic.
- Public investment needn't be a make-work proposition.
- I don't really care much about Dr. Corday's lovelife, and the boxes in the admissions area seemed like a make-work project for the writers as well as the characters.
- I would like to shake the hand of the genius of this make-work brainchild.
- The level on which Jason X does succeed, however, is as an ongoing make-work program for talentless young actors.
nounˈmeɪk ˌwərk North American Work or activity of little value that serves to keep someone busy. Example sentencesExamples - The figures for the latter, however, did not take into account those who were involved in make-work and re-education programs.
- They are also masters of make-work, bureaucracy, and Kafkaism.
- Martins's two short ballets, both to John Adams music, are unabashed make-work.
- One is inclined to dismiss all this as product of institutional delusion or bureaucratic make-work.
- Then they give the companies all kinds of make-work in exchange.
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