英和和英

語源

From make +‎ work.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪkwəːk/

名詞

make-work (uncountable)

1. (chiefly US) An activity or task assigned or undertaken for the sake of activity or busy-ness, rather than because of a particular need. [from 20th c.]
   • 2011 November 10, Lord Gilbert, House of Lords Hansard:

     I once described this rather vulgarly as a Euro-wanking make-work project and I do not resile from that.

   • 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin 2012, p. 802:

     They are more sympathetic to immigration, free markets, and free trade, and less sympathetic to protectionism, make-work policies, and government intervention in business.

派生語

• make-work job

参考

• activity trap
• busy work

参考

• activity trap