Definition of boondoggle in English:

boondoggle

noun ˈbuːndɒɡ(ə)lˈbunˌdɑɡəl

North American informal

An unnecessary, wasteful, or fraudulent project.
he characterized the defense program as an unworkable boondoggle
Example sentencesExamples
- Sam knew how to prevent an opportunity like this from turning into a boondoggle for some official's family and friends.
- But guess whom they blame for the whole boondoggle?
- And highfliers with thriving core businesses pump capital into excess capacity or real estate boondoggles - or siphon funds into private projects.
- The governor has become Santa Claus for every legislator with visions of boondoggles dancing in their heads.
- Their license area continues to be under attack as a political or ethnic boondoggle.
- As you may guess I am no fan of corporate-welfare boondoggles, but I hope that the provision to extend Daylight Savings Time survives to become law.
- Aren't these live horseracing broadcasts boondoggles?
- This has been a boondoggle and a PR sham that pays utilities to build more dirty plants while claiming to be coming clean.
- Given the colorful history of federal boondoggles - billion-dollar weapons systems that misfire, $600 toilet seats - that's an understandable concern.
- But in the view of serious energy policy experts, the project bears all the hallmarks of a boondoggle.
- So why buy more of what looks like one of the great military boondoggles?
- The program is incorrigible; once a boondoggle, always a boondoggle.
- Another boondoggle for the rich to jet somewhere exotic to gush over their concern for the poor.
- That's the time-off we manage to squeeze in during the business boondoggles to the Caribbean, or the hours not spent checking in via e-mail or cell phone.
- But to interview, over five years, 425 people, some of them scarcely or not at all relevant to the ostensible topic, smells of academic boondoggle to me.
- He probably ends up working on some military boondoggle somewhere.
- Private healthcare is a huge boondoggle for insurance companies and related industries who have enormous influence over both political parties.
- It's an absolute boondoggle, but I'm bringing it back.
- Will the blackout prove to be a boon or a boondoggle for business owners?
- The supervisors' broadband/cable/phone proposal is a more straightforward boondoggle, involving massive new pipe laying during a sewer dig.
- The PQ was especially given to swallowing corporate dogma whole, as evidenced by their mammoth funding of the short-lived ‘multimedia boom’ and other boondoggles.
Synonyms
deception, trick, cheat, hoax, subterfuge, stratagem, wile, ruse, artifice, swindle, racket

verb ˈbuːndɒɡ(ə)lˈbunˌdɑɡəl

[no object]North American informal

Spend money or time on unnecessary, wasteful, or fraudulent projects.
the only guarantees are higher taxes and bureaucratic boondoggling
Example sentencesExamples
- I boondoggle, I dilly-dally, I hang fire; but now it's time, I delay no longer.
- Now hopelessly swamped in scandal and corruption, high taxes, firearms boondoggle, sponsorship scandal, etc, they are again using bribery as their last resort.
- The Rangers are still paying the San Diego Padres for taking that boondoggle off their hands.
- Charmed by his obliqueness - ‘doing’ and ‘getting’ as euphemisms for fundraising and boondoggling - I told him the name of my book.
- Yet, despite being a harsh critic of the boondoggling ways of the administration, he has been more than tolerated by the powers that be.
- Hopefully you can boondoggle your way till the end of the day.
- Broadcast and telecom monopolists' message comes in loud and clear for boondoggled employees.
- But no talk of mismanagement - no talk of the boondoggling earlier this year that wiped out the bulk of the budget buffer in underwriting petrol prices.
- Governments, if allowed, will continue to boondoggle along unless there are lawful reforms in place to prevent it.
- If people were actually aware of how they're being boondoggled, we might get somewhere.
- He is a trusted member of the CEO brotherhood, and he never met a military boondoggle he wouldn't hug.
- His official budget even featured a photo of a wind-powered ice sled - an example of the alleged boondoggles he said he would no longer tolerate.

Origin

1930s: of unknown origin.

Definition of boondoggle in US English:

boondoggle

nounˈbo͞onˌdäɡəlˈbunˌdɑɡəl

North American informal

1Work or activity that is wasteful or pointless but gives the appearance of having value.
writing off the cold fusion phenomenon as a boondoggle best buried in literature
Example sentencesExamples
- Their license area continues to be under attack as a political or ethnic boondoggle.
- But in the view of serious energy policy experts, the project bears all the hallmarks of a boondoggle.
- It's an absolute boondoggle, but I'm bringing it back.
- As you may guess I am no fan of corporate-welfare boondoggles, but I hope that the provision to extend Daylight Savings Time survives to become law.
- The governor has become Santa Claus for every legislator with visions of boondoggles dancing in their heads.
- He probably ends up working on some military boondoggle somewhere.
- The supervisors' broadband/cable/phone proposal is a more straightforward boondoggle, involving massive new pipe laying during a sewer dig.
- Private healthcare is a huge boondoggle for insurance companies and related industries who have enormous influence over both political parties.
- But to interview, over five years, 425 people, some of them scarcely or not at all relevant to the ostensible topic, smells of academic boondoggle to me.
- The program is incorrigible; once a boondoggle, always a boondoggle.
- That's the time-off we manage to squeeze in during the business boondoggles to the Caribbean, or the hours not spent checking in via e-mail or cell phone.
- This has been a boondoggle and a PR sham that pays utilities to build more dirty plants while claiming to be coming clean.
- And highfliers with thriving core businesses pump capital into excess capacity or real estate boondoggles - or siphon funds into private projects.
- But guess whom they blame for the whole boondoggle?
- Given the colorful history of federal boondoggles - billion-dollar weapons systems that misfire, $600 toilet seats - that's an understandable concern.
- Another boondoggle for the rich to jet somewhere exotic to gush over their concern for the poor.
- Aren't these live horseracing broadcasts boondoggles?
- Sam knew how to prevent an opportunity like this from turning into a boondoggle for some official's family and friends.
- The PQ was especially given to swallowing corporate dogma whole, as evidenced by their mammoth funding of the short-lived ‘multimedia boom’ and other boondoggles.
- So why buy more of what looks like one of the great military boondoggles?
- Will the blackout prove to be a boon or a boondoggle for business owners?
Synonyms
deception, trick, cheat, hoax, subterfuge, stratagem, wile, ruse, artifice, swindle, racket
1. 1.1 A public project of questionable merit that typically involves political patronage and graft.
  they each drew $600,000 in the final months of the great boondoggle
  Example sentencesExamples
  You may be right that it all went in boondoggles.
  Conversely, many people along Florida's lower east coast believed that Everglades reclamation was an unnecessary boondoggle.
  It has been said that governments are shadows cast by business over the people - so why are we surprised at the Liberal Party's boondoggle?
  His argument overcame critics who said the project was a Big Brother boondoggle not worth its 3 billion pound cost.
  Nor is it the opportunities they will create for colossal boondoggles by government contractors.
  Yet all this saving, much of which goes into government bonds for boondoggle construction projects with a negative net return, is killing their economy.
  Congress balked at funding this boondoggle, and the program collapsed with nothing accomplished and close to a billion dollars of the taxpayer's money down the drain.
  You can't improve their lot by aid if the aid money flows into Swiss bank accounts or monumental boondoggle infrastructure projects.
  The project to protect the United States from ballistic missile attack is one of the great boondoggles of all time.
  The feds are willing to pay for this particular boondoggle.
  History will show this to be the biggest boondoggle in US history.
  Their experts and bureaucrats would supposedly do a more professional job of confiscating our money and throwing it down the rat holes of political boondoggles.
  Throw in politics and you have a boondoggle in the making.
  A gift-wrapped boondoggle letting them buy our public lands containing billions-of-dollars worth of precious metals.
  They are not crazy, these public boondoggle people.
  Yet the fact remains, that's what's truly needed to document ineffective practices, or outright fraud, in this unaccountable, taxpayer-funded boondoggle.
  We need to return to vigorously fighting the development of this pricey boondoggle.
  The city's troubled street-paving project will turn out to be its next municipal boondoggle.
  Reallocate road taxes away from wasteful boondoggles?
  As I have come to understand how the world really works, I am not surprised at this boondoggle.
  Time to name your favorite government boondoggle, the biggest waste of time and money, which gets your goat!

verbˈbo͞onˌdäɡəlˈbunˌdɑɡəl

[no object]North American informal

Waste money or time on unnecessary or questionable projects.
Example sentencesExamples
- Governments, if allowed, will continue to boondoggle along unless there are lawful reforms in place to prevent it.
- But no talk of mismanagement - no talk of the boondoggling earlier this year that wiped out the bulk of the budget buffer in underwriting petrol prices.
- Charmed by his obliqueness - ‘doing’ and ‘getting’ as euphemisms for fundraising and boondoggling - I told him the name of my book.
- The Rangers are still paying the San Diego Padres for taking that boondoggle off their hands.
- Hopefully you can boondoggle your way till the end of the day.
- His official budget even featured a photo of a wind-powered ice sled - an example of the alleged boondoggles he said he would no longer tolerate.
- If people were actually aware of how they're being boondoggled, we might get somewhere.
- Now hopelessly swamped in scandal and corruption, high taxes, firearms boondoggle, sponsorship scandal, etc, they are again using bribery as their last resort.
- I boondoggle, I dilly-dally, I hang fire; but now it's time, I delay no longer.
- Broadcast and telecom monopolists' message comes in loud and clear for boondoggled employees.
- Yet, despite being a harsh critic of the boondoggling ways of the administration, he has been more than tolerated by the powers that be.
- He is a trusted member of the CEO brotherhood, and he never met a military boondoggle he wouldn't hug.

Origin

1930s: of unknown origin.

单词	boondoggle
释义	Definition of boondoggle in English: boondoggle noun ˈbuːndɒɡ(ə)lˈbunˌdɑɡəl North American informal An unnecessary, wasteful, or fraudulent project. he characterized the defense program as an unworkable boondoggle Example sentencesExamples Sam knew how to prevent an opportunity like this from turning into a boondoggle for some official's family and friends. But guess whom they blame for the whole boondoggle? And highfliers with thriving core businesses pump capital into excess capacity or real estate boondoggles - or siphon funds into private projects. The governor has become Santa Claus for every legislator with visions of boondoggles dancing in their heads. Their license area continues to be under attack as a political or ethnic boondoggle. As you may guess I am no fan of corporate-welfare boondoggles, but I hope that the provision to extend Daylight Savings Time survives to become law. Aren't these live horseracing broadcasts boondoggles? This has been a boondoggle and a PR sham that pays utilities to build more dirty plants while claiming to be coming clean. Given the colorful history of federal boondoggles - billion-dollar weapons systems that misfire, $600 toilet seats - that's an understandable concern. But in the view of serious energy policy experts, the project bears all the hallmarks of a boondoggle. So why buy more of what looks like one of the great military boondoggles? The program is incorrigible; once a boondoggle, always a boondoggle. Another boondoggle for the rich to jet somewhere exotic to gush over their concern for the poor. That's the time-off we manage to squeeze in during the business boondoggles to the Caribbean, or the hours not spent checking in via e-mail or cell phone. But to interview, over five years, 425 people, some of them scarcely or not at all relevant to the ostensible topic, smells of academic boondoggle to me. He probably ends up working on some military boondoggle somewhere. Private healthcare is a huge boondoggle for insurance companies and related industries who have enormous influence over both political parties. It's an absolute boondoggle, but I'm bringing it back. Will the blackout prove to be a boon or a boondoggle for business owners? The supervisors' broadband/cable/phone proposal is a more straightforward boondoggle, involving massive new pipe laying during a sewer dig. The PQ was especially given to swallowing corporate dogma whole, as evidenced by their mammoth funding of the short-lived ‘multimedia boom’ and other boondoggles. Synonyms deception, trick, cheat, hoax, subterfuge, stratagem, wile, ruse, artifice, swindle, racket verb ˈbuːndɒɡ(ə)lˈbunˌdɑɡəl [no object]North American informal Spend money or time on unnecessary, wasteful, or fraudulent projects. the only guarantees are higher taxes and bureaucratic boondoggling Example sentencesExamples I boondoggle, I dilly-dally, I hang fire; but now it's time, I delay no longer. Now hopelessly swamped in scandal and corruption, high taxes, firearms boondoggle, sponsorship scandal, etc, they are again using bribery as their last resort. The Rangers are still paying the San Diego Padres for taking that boondoggle off their hands. Charmed by his obliqueness - ‘doing’ and ‘getting’ as euphemisms for fundraising and boondoggling - I told him the name of my book. Yet, despite being a harsh critic of the boondoggling ways of the administration, he has been more than tolerated by the powers that be. Hopefully you can boondoggle your way till the end of the day. Broadcast and telecom monopolists' message comes in loud and clear for boondoggled employees. But no talk of mismanagement - no talk of the boondoggling earlier this year that wiped out the bulk of the budget buffer in underwriting petrol prices. Governments, if allowed, will continue to boondoggle along unless there are lawful reforms in place to prevent it. If people were actually aware of how they're being boondoggled, we might get somewhere. He is a trusted member of the CEO brotherhood, and he never met a military boondoggle he wouldn't hug. His official budget even featured a photo of a wind-powered ice sled - an example of the alleged boondoggles he said he would no longer tolerate. Origin 1930s: of unknown origin. Definition of boondoggle in US English: boondoggle nounˈbo͞onˌdäɡəlˈbunˌdɑɡəl North American informal 1Work or activity that is wasteful or pointless but gives the appearance of having value. writing off the cold fusion phenomenon as a boondoggle best buried in literature Example sentencesExamples Their license area continues to be under attack as a political or ethnic boondoggle. But in the view of serious energy policy experts, the project bears all the hallmarks of a boondoggle. It's an absolute boondoggle, but I'm bringing it back. As you may guess I am no fan of corporate-welfare boondoggles, but I hope that the provision to extend Daylight Savings Time survives to become law. The governor has become Santa Claus for every legislator with visions of boondoggles dancing in their heads. He probably ends up working on some military boondoggle somewhere. The supervisors' broadband/cable/phone proposal is a more straightforward boondoggle, involving massive new pipe laying during a sewer dig. Private healthcare is a huge boondoggle for insurance companies and related industries who have enormous influence over both political parties. But to interview, over five years, 425 people, some of them scarcely or not at all relevant to the ostensible topic, smells of academic boondoggle to me. The program is incorrigible; once a boondoggle, always a boondoggle. That's the time-off we manage to squeeze in during the business boondoggles to the Caribbean, or the hours not spent checking in via e-mail or cell phone. This has been a boondoggle and a PR sham that pays utilities to build more dirty plants while claiming to be coming clean. And highfliers with thriving core businesses pump capital into excess capacity or real estate boondoggles - or siphon funds into private projects. But guess whom they blame for the whole boondoggle? Given the colorful history of federal boondoggles - billion-dollar weapons systems that misfire, $600 toilet seats - that's an understandable concern. Another boondoggle for the rich to jet somewhere exotic to gush over their concern for the poor. Aren't these live horseracing broadcasts boondoggles? Sam knew how to prevent an opportunity like this from turning into a boondoggle for some official's family and friends. The PQ was especially given to swallowing corporate dogma whole, as evidenced by their mammoth funding of the short-lived ‘multimedia boom’ and other boondoggles. So why buy more of what looks like one of the great military boondoggles? Will the blackout prove to be a boon or a boondoggle for business owners? Synonyms deception, trick, cheat, hoax, subterfuge, stratagem, wile, ruse, artifice, swindle, racket 1.1 A public project of questionable merit that typically involves political patronage and graft. they each drew $600,000 in the final months of the great boondoggle Example sentencesExamples You may be right that it all went in boondoggles. Conversely, many people along Florida's lower east coast believed that Everglades reclamation was an unnecessary boondoggle. It has been said that governments are shadows cast by business over the people - so why are we surprised at the Liberal Party's boondoggle? His argument overcame critics who said the project was a Big Brother boondoggle not worth its 3 billion pound cost. Nor is it the opportunities they will create for colossal boondoggles by government contractors. Yet all this saving, much of which goes into government bonds for boondoggle construction projects with a negative net return, is killing their economy. Congress balked at funding this boondoggle, and the program collapsed with nothing accomplished and close to a billion dollars of the taxpayer's money down the drain. You can't improve their lot by aid if the aid money flows into Swiss bank accounts or monumental boondoggle infrastructure projects. The project to protect the United States from ballistic missile attack is one of the great boondoggles of all time. The feds are willing to pay for this particular boondoggle. History will show this to be the biggest boondoggle in US history. Their experts and bureaucrats would supposedly do a more professional job of confiscating our money and throwing it down the rat holes of political boondoggles. Throw in politics and you have a boondoggle in the making. A gift-wrapped boondoggle letting them buy our public lands containing billions-of-dollars worth of precious metals. They are not crazy, these public boondoggle people. Yet the fact remains, that's what's truly needed to document ineffective practices, or outright fraud, in this unaccountable, taxpayer-funded boondoggle. We need to return to vigorously fighting the development of this pricey boondoggle. The city's troubled street-paving project will turn out to be its next municipal boondoggle. Reallocate road taxes away from wasteful boondoggles? As I have come to understand how the world really works, I am not surprised at this boondoggle. Time to name your favorite government boondoggle, the biggest waste of time and money, which gets your goat! verbˈbo͞onˌdäɡəlˈbunˌdɑɡəl [no object]North American informal Waste money or time on unnecessary or questionable projects. Example sentencesExamples Governments, if allowed, will continue to boondoggle along unless there are lawful reforms in place to prevent it. But no talk of mismanagement - no talk of the boondoggling earlier this year that wiped out the bulk of the budget buffer in underwriting petrol prices. Charmed by his obliqueness - ‘doing’ and ‘getting’ as euphemisms for fundraising and boondoggling - I told him the name of my book. The Rangers are still paying the San Diego Padres for taking that boondoggle off their hands. Hopefully you can boondoggle your way till the end of the day. His official budget even featured a photo of a wind-powered ice sled - an example of the alleged boondoggles he said he would no longer tolerate. If people were actually aware of how they're being boondoggled, we might get somewhere. Now hopelessly swamped in scandal and corruption, high taxes, firearms boondoggle, sponsorship scandal, etc, they are again using bribery as their last resort. I boondoggle, I dilly-dally, I hang fire; but now it's time, I delay no longer. Broadcast and telecom monopolists' message comes in loud and clear for boondoggled employees. Yet, despite being a harsh critic of the boondoggling ways of the administration, he has been more than tolerated by the powers that be. He is a trusted member of the CEO brotherhood, and he never met a military boondoggle he wouldn't hug. Origin 1930s: of unknown origin.
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