Definitions for make-work
make-work

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1. busywork, make-worknoun

   active work of little value

   "while he was waiting he filled the days with busywork"

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1. make-worknoun

   Active work of litle value, such as assignments given by teachers to students to keep them busy while the teacher performs other tasks, or chores performed to while away time; also called busywork.

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1. make-worknoun

   An activity or task assigned or undertaken for the sake of activity or busy-ness, rather than because of a particular need.

   The assignment was simply make-work to keep them busy on a rainy day.

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1. make-work

   A make-work job is a job that has less immediate financial or little benefit at all to the economy than the job costs to support. It may also have no benefit. Make-work jobs are similar to workfare, but are publicly offered on the job market and have otherwise normal employment requirements (workfare jobs, in contrast, may be handed out to a randomly selected applicant or have special requirements such as continuing to search for a non-workfare job).

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1. • Work

How to pronounce make-work?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of make-work in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of make-work in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of make-work in a Sentence

1. Elissa Blount Moorhead.For Moorhead:

   I want to make work that's not just a reflection, but really an extension of who I am and who we may be, and when they walk through, they see something that is resonant and that reminds them I'm there, on the other side.

2. Robert Doar:

   When I ran the welfare programs in New York City we had a strong focus on supplementing full-time work with public assistance that could make wages go further—that was a good idea. Make work pay, but sometimes as we promoted those programs and we made them easier to get on, they turned out to be work replacements, so an increasing number of people were coming in and saying I have no earnings, but I still want food stamp benefits.

3. Michaela Coel:

   Thank you for your existence in our industry, for making the space safe, for creating physical, emotional and professional boundaries so that we can make work about exploitation, loss of respect, about abuse of power without being exploited or abused in the process.

4. James R. Cook:

   At the very least, people who get subsidies should have to get up in the morning and do something, even if it's a make work job. But most liberals would oppose even this simple test of responsibility.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=make-work
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=make-work
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Make-Work
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make-Work