MAKE-WORK


Meaning of MAKE-WORK in English

ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun

Etymology: from the phrase make work

: work devised chiefly to provide for the employment of labor

older men have jobs which are make-work because no one can bring himself to discharge them — David Riesman

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