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make-work definition

☆ make·-work (-wʉrk′)

adjective, noun

(designating) a job, project, or assignment that serves no useful purpose other than to give an otherwise idle or unemployed person something to do

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