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Boondoggle

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Boondoggle
A large, expensive project of no particular use. It especially refers to squandering government or corporate money. The term refers to perceived wasteful recreational activities provided to the unemployed during the New Deal in the United States.
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David Collins NEW YORK Boondoggle is a mild description for the way companies buy back their stock and claim this is returning value to shareholders.
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By selecting one person for such informative missions, in place of a government boondoggle charter or high-class flight full of underemployed civil servants (personal experience
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