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"expansion": "busy work (uncountable)",
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"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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"examples": [
{
"text": "Until we have a system clearly established, entering more data is just busy work."
}
],
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"Work or activity performed with the intention or result of occupying time, and not necessarily to accomplish something productive; routine work of low priority undertaken for the sake of avoiding idleness."
],
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"(idiomatic, chiefly US) Work or activity performed with the intention or result of occupying time, and not necessarily to accomplish something productive; routine work of low priority undertaken for the sake of avoiding idleness."
],
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"word": "make-work"
}
],
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},
{
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"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "activity performed for occupying time",
"word": "puuhastelu"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "activity performed for occupying time",
"word": "touhuilu"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "activity performed for occupying time",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bassotage"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "activity performed for occupying time",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Beschäftigungstherapie"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "activity performed for occupying time",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "terapia ocupacional"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "activity performed for occupying time",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "tidsslöseri"
}
]
}
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"tags": [
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"text": "Until we have a system clearly established, entering more data is just busy work."
}
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],
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"result",
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],
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"(idiomatic, chiefly US) Work or activity performed with the intention or result of occupying time, and not necessarily to accomplish something productive; routine work of low priority undertaken for the sake of avoiding idleness."
],
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"tags": [
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{
"word": "busy-work"
}
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"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "activity performed for occupying time",
"word": "puuhastelu"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "activity performed for occupying time",
"word": "touhuilu"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "activity performed for occupying time",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bassotage"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "activity performed for occupying time",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Beschäftigungstherapie"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "activity performed for occupying time",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "terapia ocupacional"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "activity performed for occupying time",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "tidsslöseri"
}
],
"word": "busy work"
}
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