boondoggle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A braided ring to hold a neckerchief.
2. isim A waste of time or money; a pointless activity.

   “Opponents consider this another billion-dollar government boondoggle.”

3. isim A trip or journey, especially a recreational or otherwise desirable one.

   “By its strictest definition, a boondoggle is a recreational trip out of town, but it has been blurred by threadbare jokes to mean any trip that is desirable, whether for work or not.”

4. isim A non-work trip away from a research station.

   “A non-work excursion away from the station in US Antarctic English is a “boondoggle”, or a “jolly” for the Britons.”

5. fiil To waste time on a pointless activity.

   “These days the astronaut job title has been split into two categories. (Three, counting payload specialist, the category into which teachers, boondoggling senators, and junketing Saudi princes fall.)”