make-work
An activity or task assigned or undertaken for the sake of activity or busy-ness, rather than because of a particular need.
Noun
- An activity or task assigned or undertaken for the sake of activity or busy-ness, rather than because of a particular need.
- I once described this rather vulgarly as a Euro-wanking make-work project and I do not resile from that. - 2011 November 10, Lord Gilbert, House of Lords Hansard:
- They are more sympathetic to immigration, free markets, and free trade, and less sympathetic to protectionism, make-work policies, and government intervention in business. - 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our...
- In that COVID era, in June of 2020, I interviewed the anthropologist David Graeber, author of Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, a few months ahead of his untimely death. His book had suggested that many modern jobs were...
Origin
From make + work.