English Explanatory Dictionary

Parkinson's law

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. The adage that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

Word forms

Parkinson's law

Etymology

Introduced by Cyril Northcote Parkinson in a humorous essay published in The Economist in 1955.

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