Words similar to make-work

Example sentences for: make-work

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A majority of economists believes that during a severe depression--which certainly doesn't describe America right now--it's important to pay people to do make-work (digging ditches or restoring hiking trails will also do).
The jury-selection process is another good example of judicial make-work.
This is essentially a make-work scheme: the mailers do the extra work of putting the address on each piece and the Postal Service does the extra work of arranging these pieces in delivery order.
By sloughing off thousands of make-work employees and ditching absurd union rules (which had banned computerization, for example), Murdoch made his newspapers cheaper for readers and more profitable for him.