Synonyms 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"

   Synonyms:
   busywork

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1. • Work

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1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.