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Make-work is work that does not really need doing. Someone gives it to you so you look busy, or so a group of people still have jobs. A make-work project might be copying papers that nobody will read, or digging a hole and filling it in again. The feeling is dry and a bit angry: the work is fake in purpose, even if your hands are actually moving. You hear it about offices, armies, and governments. It is not homework, and it is not work you make for yourself because you care. It is work made so that idle hands have something to hold.
閒差、為了讓人有事做而給的工作
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
make-worknoun/ˈmeɪkwəːk/
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An activity or task assigned or undertaken for the sake of activity or busy-ness, rather than because of a particular need.
- I once described this rather vulgarly as a Euro-wanking make-work project and I do not resile from that.
- They are more sympathetic to immigration, free markets, and free trade, and less sympathetic to protectionism, make-work policies, and government intervention in business.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。