Words and phrases that have a meaning related to busywork: (117 results)
Often used in the same context:
drudge, drudgery, rote, chore, tedium, administrivia, bookwork, minutia, homework, irrelevancies, boring, tasks, trivialities, tediousness, technobabble, humdrum, fussing, daydreaming, scut work, fluff, schoolwork, nitpicking, micromanagement, alphabetizing, trifles, monotony, rigamarole, faultfinding, kvetching, expository, billable hours, repetitiveness, spreadsheets, philosophizing, boredom, chitchat, hackwork, procrastinating, stuff, doodling, tickler file, bloviation, brainwork, jabberwocky, bureaucracy, snipe hunt, inane, mundaneness, memorization, slaving, photocopying, housewifery, micromanaging, rigmarole, picayune, nothingness, excessing, wordprocessing, tattling, xeroxing, workday, automatons, stenography, busyness, yardwork, shoptalk, mediocrities, annoyances, prewriting, distractions, mumbo jumbo, crosswords, slothfulness, deskbound, housework, quadratic equation, vacuuming, platitudes, soliloquizing, speechifying, crapola, tommyrot, workaholics, pabulum, dissertations, crap, mucking, everydayness, window dressing, invigilating, drivel, browbeating, proofreading, pencil pusher, dreck, kibitzing, reams, piffle, lit crit, joyless, mcjobs, consuming, trivia, paperwork, formality, verbiage, formalities, quibbling, babble, blather, chatter, minutiae, procrastination, repetition, technicality
More general:
work
Synonyms:
Also try:make-work
— Adjectives for busywork: mere, much, meaningless, such, unnecessary, more, bureaucratic, pointless, endless, administrative, sheer, more...
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