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Parkinson's law
or Parkinson's Law
noun
- the statement, expressed facetiously as if a law of physics, that work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion.
Parkinson's law
noun
- the notion, expressed facetiously as a law of economics, that work expands to fill the time available for its completion
Parkinson's Law
- A law propounded by the twentieth-century British scholar C. Northcote Parkinson. It states, “ Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.”
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Parkinson's law1
First recorded in 1950–55; after C. N. Parkinson
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Parkinson's law1
C20: named after C. N. Parkinson (1909–93), British historian and writer, who formulated it
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