0 unimportant work given to someone to keep that person busy
1 unimportant work given to someone to keep that person busy
2 jobs that are given to people, especially by a government, to stop them from being unemployed:
Senior State Department officials took the decision to divert $286 million to short-term "make-work" projects.
In that case, it is simply a make-work, temporary employment scheme.
Unfortunately, make-work schemes always cost more than they save.
I do not support massive reflationary measures or wasteful make-work schemes.
Helenians employed on make-work schemes; how many hours are worked on average; and how this compares with 1982.
First, its make-work schemes would not save money, but would cost money.
There may be a social case for make-work schemes.
It is not a programme of make-work; it is real work with a socially useful output.
Will he ensure that the scheme places every possible emphasis on long-term retraining for the future and does not become merely a "make-work" scheme?
