boondoggle

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English - Turkish
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(Ticaret) gereksiz harcama
dili faydasız iş
(Ticaret) gereksiz iş
English - English
A braided ring to hold a neckerchief, particularly in scouting; a woggle
A waste of time and/or money; a pointless activity

Opponents consider this another billion-dollar government boondoggle.

To waste time on a pointless activity
{f} create from junk; engage in a useless task; deceive, attempt to mislead
{i} useless work that is carried out only to look busy; activity which is extremely wasteful, project that is wasteful and redundant; unpractical government project that is financed to earn political favor; braided cord that Boy Scouts wear as a neckerchief woggle or hatband
work of little or no value done merely to look busy
disapproval People sometimes refer to an official organization or activity as a boondoggle when they think it wastes a lot of time and money and does not achieve much. The new runway is a billion-dollar boondoggle. an officially organized plan or activity that is very complicated and wastes a lot of time, money, and effort (An invented word)
work of little or no value done merely to look busy do useless, wasteful, or trivial work
do useless, wasteful, or trivial work

Related Terms

boondoggled
past of boondoggle
boondoggles
plural of boondoggle
boondoggling
present participle of boondoggle
boondoggle

    Hyphenation

    boon·dog·gle

    Turkish pronunciation

    bundägıl

    Synonyms

    woggle

    Pronunciation

    /ˌbo͞onˈdägəl/ /ˌbuːnˈdɑːɡəl/

    Etymology

    [ 'bün-"dä-g&l, -" ] (noun.) 1929. Coined by Robert H. Link, American scout, 1929; alternatively “boon doggle”., World Wide Words, Michael Quinion Compare woggle of similar sense, attested in same period. In sense of “wasteful government program”, popularized in 1935 by The New York Times, in reference to New Deal programs which were claimed to feature people making such braids., New York Times, April 4, 1935
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