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☆ busy·work or busy-work bus′y-work′ (-wʉrk′)

noun

an activity, often as assigned to a class in school, that has little purpose beyond keeping one occupied for a time

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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