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make-work
(make-work)
North American
adjective
denoting an activity that serves mainly to keep someone busy and is of little value in itself:
a make-work scheme for lawyers
noun
[
mass noun
]
make-work activity:
leftists are accused of scholarly make-work in studying obscure authors
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