Words similar to make-work

Example sentences for: make-work

How can you use “make-work” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

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.
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.
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.