"leaf-raking" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "glosses": [
        "The act or process of raking leaves."
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          "leaf"
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          "sense": "raking of leaves",
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          "word": "lövkrattning"
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          "ref": "1955, Robert L. Heilbroner, The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economists, page 225:",
          "text": "Relief was essential and began under Hoover; then, under Roosevelt, relief turned into leaf-raking, and leaf-raking turned into constructive enterprise.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Robert Dallek, Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960, volume 1:",
          "text": "public agencies were to plan building programs that would do the job and preserve communities from “the necessity of feeding hungry men through the expediency of 'leaf-raking' projects or the dole or soup lines.",
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          "ref": "2003, Richard Norton Smith, The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick, 1880-1955, page 63:",
          "text": "Yet neither man came close to realizing his early political promise, or to forgiving the tendency of the average voter to sell his birthright for a leaf-raking job or Social Security card.",
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        "Marginally productive government-financed employment."
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        "(US, usually derogatory) Marginally productive government-financed employment."
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          "_dis1": "3 97",
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          "word": "skyddad verkstad"
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  "word": "leaf-raking"
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  "etymology_text": "Sense regarding employment: from the nature of some of the activities of the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression in the US.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "The act or process of raking leaves."
      ],
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          "leaves",
          "leaf"
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          "ref": "1955, Robert L. Heilbroner, The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economists, page 225:",
          "text": "Relief was essential and began under Hoover; then, under Roosevelt, relief turned into leaf-raking, and leaf-raking turned into constructive enterprise.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Robert Dallek, Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960, volume 1:",
          "text": "public agencies were to plan building programs that would do the job and preserve communities from “the necessity of feeding hungry men through the expediency of 'leaf-raking' projects or the dole or soup lines.",
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        },
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          "text": "Yet neither man came close to realizing his early political promise, or to forgiving the tendency of the average voter to sell his birthright for a leaf-raking job or Social Security card.",
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      "sense": "raking of leaves",
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      "word": "lövkrattning"
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      "word": "skyddad verkstad"
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  "word": "leaf-raking"
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