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Parkinson's law

or Parkinson's Law

noun

  1. 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

  1. the notion, expressed facetiously as a law of economics, that work expands to fill the time available for its completion
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Parkinson's Law

  1. 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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