Crossword clues for busywork
The Collaborative International Dictionary
make-work \make-work\ n. 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.
Syn: busywork.
busywork \busywork\ n. active work of little value, performed merely to occupy time, avoid boredom, or to look busy; as, while he was waiting he filled the days with busywork.
Syn: make-work.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of busy work English)
WordNet
n. active work of little value; "while he was waiting he filled the days with busywork" [syn: make-work]
Usage examples of "busywork".
She had enjoyed the noise, the busywork, the company, and she had managed well.
All the rest is busywork, no matter how much physical action or movement a writer includes in a story.
She said not a word to Sally when she came over by the grill and made busywork of replenishing the supply of bread.
They kept him at the base, going over the details of the mission, checking his health, and generally giving him busywork until the time came to leave.
She waited another five full minutes, doing busywork in case her friend doubled back for any reason.
It was probably just busywork, but you never know, and I had nothing better to do.
More and more she was convinced that the whole Pell operation was busywork, that Mazian might be doing precisely what she had advised all along, keeping the troops busy, keeping even his crews and captains busy, while the real operation here was that on Downbelow and what he proposed with the mines and short-haulers, the gathering of supplies, the repairs, the sorting of station personnel for identification and capture of all those fugitives who might surface and make takeover easy and cheap for Union.
Clay decided to kill the day by editing video: time-eating busywork that supplied at least an imaginary escape from the real world.
She needed work, mindless busywork, to let them think they were safely hidden in her mind.
Not so much the busywork laws concerning the decoration of the temple with red lambswool and badger skins and shittim wood, and not even the tough laws -- eye for an eye, wound for wound, stripe for stripe -- since those were a useful deterrent against crime.
Everything looked functional enough, and everything that could be done by the crews of downlined ships put to busywork to keep them from going slack had been done, too.
With no patients scheduled, I dived into busywork: messengering the video of Darren to Mal, finishing other reports, paying and mailing bills, feeding the koi and netting debris out of their pond, cleaning the house until it sparkled.
Trusted aides like Burkow and Lawrence's Press Secretary Adrian Crow had been allowed to create their own little fiefdoms, power bases that won over or alienated other government agencies by rewarding cooperation and success with access to the President and increased responsibilities, punishing failure with backwater assignments and busywork.
Not so much the busywork laws concerning the decoration of the temple with red lambswool and badger skins and shittim wood, and not even the tough laws—.
A half an hour to get back to the division, a half to fill out the reports and another half for busywork.