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Examples of busywork
busywork
Although there has been the occasional busywork, that has been the exception.
From the washingtonpost.com
As a result, many people approaching 50 are marginalized with busywork by employers.
From the time.com
There are now three Web-based services willing to do all your bill-related busywork.
From the time.com
Lots of searching around, collecting blueprints, end-game busywork.
From the techcrunch.com
This is the living claiming the dead and attempting to quash their horror through busywork.
From the newsweek.com
We've earned the right to forget about stupefying household busywork.
From the timesunion.com
It is bureaucracy in pure form, busywork with no aim or end, impossible to avoid or escape.
From the nytimes.com
A lot of what we do in the news business is glorified busywork.
From the theatlantic.com
At any other time, such an action could be seen as just more busywork for our public officials.
From the washingtonpost.com
- Active work of little value; "while he was waiting he filled the days with busywork"
- Busy work is a term for work or assignments that are felt to be time consuming, but not useful. It is typically used to refer to schoolwork which is time consuming for students but not educationally valuable, but can also refer to procedures or paperwork in a bureaucracy which is felt to be ...
