While he was waiting he filled the days with busywork. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
In economics, model-builders 'busywork is to refine their ideas to ask questions to which the available data cannot give the answer. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Solow on Model-Building, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
I was given "busywork" and left alone all day long. From Wordnik.com. [Who's Looking Out for You]
This kind of busywork has been de rigeur since Lara raided her first tomb. From Wordnik.com. [PopMatters] Reference
"busywork" program for unemployed, retired politicians to pick up an extra check at the expense of us, the U.S. taxpayers. From Wordnik.com. [Bakersfield.com Latest news] Reference
Unnecessary busywork to keep me occupied, no doubt. From Wordnik.com. [Ricochet]
Midwife your body … give it some quiet busywork to do. From Wordnik.com. [We, Who Need Such Great Mysteries | Her Bad Mother] Reference
This isn't busywork -- the teachers really need the help. From Wordnik.com. [Sylvia Martinez: It's a Gift -- Tech Savvy Kids Changing the World] Reference
The busywork limited them to three or four hours of sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Prayer led to pain for cult victims] Reference
Rune was nervous and she did busywork, straightening up clothes. From Wordnik.com. [Manhattan Is My Beat]
After all that busywork, the day's bubble began to go a bit flat. From Wordnik.com. [A Darker Place]
To that end, he spent another half hour creating busywork for himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Alibi]
Hear him out; tell him they're doing something else; give him busywork. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference
Or he saw them doing busywork solely to impress him with their industriousness. From Wordnik.com. [Why Companies Don't Need Headquarters] Reference
You may not be listening hard, just working, driving, doing busywork or the laundry. From Wordnik.com. [Scientists Discover That Conservatives Are Brain-Dead] Reference
I strode through the ground-floor busywork Sleepy uses to shield herself from the world. From Wordnik.com. [Soldiers Live]
Coffee and busywork kept me going most of the morning, but the exhaustion just hit me hard. From Wordnik.com. [Madagascar and other stuff] Reference
This is the living claiming the dead and attempting to quash their horror through busywork. From Wordnik.com. [The Haunting] Reference
This will minimize distraction from the busywork of the day and from street and house noise. From Wordnik.com. [Dealing with Difficult Experiences that Arise in Meditation and in Retreat] Reference
At any other time, such an action could be seen as just more busywork for our public officials. From Wordnik.com. [Financial literacy campaign could save money for citizens, government] Reference
Joining us live now, we have one of the folks who has been doing all this busywork, Kate Hutton. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 30, 2008] Reference
In retrospect, it seems clear that this was busywork: Dole handled the "" heavy lifting '' himself. From Wordnik.com. [Just The Ticket?] Reference
BONUS -- Making the labels will give you some productive busywork on the bus ride down to Louisiana. From Wordnik.com. [Ned Goldreyer: The Gulf Coast Was Ruined and All I Got Was This Lousy Sense of Doom] Reference
As for homogenized busywork - that describes 75% of interesting jobs, and 95% of uninteresting jobs. From Wordnik.com. [Page One of My Next Book, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
All the rest is busywork, no matter how much physical action or movement a writer includes in a story. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Minutes, That's It] Reference
As it is, making them hunt the articles down or pay extra and unnecessary money is just annoying busywork. From Wordnik.com. [One Bright Star (1B*) Reignited] Reference
Reporters squander time to update members 'websites, write TV headlines, and pursue other endless busywork. From Wordnik.com. [Mort Rosenblum: AP 2.0: Losing Eyes and Ears in a Perilous World] Reference
And the answer is, pretty far from the mindless and homogenized busywork they're currently forced to endure. From Wordnik.com. [Page One of My Next Book, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Or alternatively finding someone to handle all the easier busywork so your hands are free for the hard stuff. From Wordnik.com. [Are You Afraid of Success? We Bet Yes.] Reference
Today, keeping track of all the stuff onboard a space station is more than just busywork for idle spacefarers. From Wordnik.com. [Dirty, Dirty Spaceships] Reference
By the time she had finished her busywork, she had almost convinced herself that the letter wouldn't be from him. From Wordnik.com. [Message in a Bottle]
And for employers, use interns to their fullest by giving them meaningful assignments rather than office busywork. From Wordnik.com. [Ladan Nekoomaram: 10 Relationship Values That Will Help In Your Internship] Reference
Sometimes I was absolutely terrified, but those were just a few hours, in a few days of months and months of busywork. From Wordnik.com. [Furlough] Reference
Letting an employee occupy the dead spots with non-harmful morale boosters seems like a smart move: nobody likes busywork. —. From Wordnik.com. [Mondrian Soda? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
My DH did NOT care what anyone thought and didn't do busywork, so his grades were lower, though not bad because he Aced the tests. From Wordnik.com. [Kids Outside...Thoughts on Extended Day] Reference
He thought that they were too much work, that I wore myself out, that I was miserable in the days of busywork before the big event. From Wordnik.com. [Falling Apart in One Piece] Reference
Boxes of journals and poetry written chronicling every day in a life filled with busywork that has not been witnessed by any of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Monsters Under the Lid] Reference
I would have had an easier time reading this article had the the busywork of the right margins not hide so much of the writer's words. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Shoe Drops: Worsening California's Budget Crisis] Reference
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