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Discover Ludwig'busywork' is a valid word and can be used in written English
It is used to refer to tasks or assignments that are performed to keep oneself busy, but are not necessarily important or necessary. For example, "The teacher gave us a lot of busywork to do during our free period."
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The first is that homework is busywork, with no effect on academic achievement.
Running one's own label requires dedicated personnel, institutional memory, and an incredible amount of busywork, especially now as everyone is focussed on developing multiple revenue streams, each with its own strategy.
2. Metal Gear Solid V (PlayStation 3 and 4, Windows, Xbox One and 360) The arc of big-budget game-making has, in the past few years, bent toward uniformity of design — an open world, freely explored and filled with busywork (collect five of these, kill ten of those, etc).. Metal Gear Solid V, perhaps the last game in the series that Hideo Kojima established, in 1987, is no different.
According to her press release, Jhane has recently been making use of an algorithmic computer program, fashioned exclusively for her, that has taken some of the busywork out of textile design, and freed her up to gaze "intothe future to see visions of theshapes of things to come".
"That's just busywork.
The alterations that Mr. Zhang reveals may seem innocuous, but the evocation of Orwellian busywork constantly varnishing truth for the benefit of dictatorial dominion is chilling to contemplate.
Relegated to busywork in New York, he quit in less than a year.
Arthur (the voice of James McAvoy), one of Santa's two sons, is a bumbler who is assigned to the comparative busywork of answering children's letters, while Steve Hugh Lauriee), his brother, is groomed to replace the aging Big Guy.
The sculptures consisting of shelves of generic artist ceramics are busywork, fun but inconsequential.
Your brain's glad to finally have a real job to do, instead of all that trivial busywork.
A trilobite third-grade teacher immediately assigns it to her class as busywork.
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