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Meaning of "Parkinson's law" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PARKINSON'S LAW

Named after C. N. Parkinson (1909–93), British historian and writer, who formulated it.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PARKINSON'S LAW

Parkinson's law play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PARKINSON'S LAW

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preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Parkinson's law is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PARKINSON'S LAW MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Parkinson's law

Parkinson's law

Parkinson's law is the adage that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion".

Definition of Parkinson's law in the English dictionary

The definition of Parkinson's law in the dictionary is the notion, expressed facetiously as a law of economics, that work expands to fill the time available for its completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PARKINSON'S LAW

Parkinson´s
Parkinson´s disease
Parkinson´s syndrome
parkinsonian
Parkinsonism

WORDS THAT END LIKE PARKINSON'S LAW

Avogadro´s law
Boyle´s law
Bragg´s law
Buys Ballot´s law
Coulomb´s law
court of law
Curie-Weiss law
Dalton´s law
Gay-Lussac´s law
Gresham´s law
Henry´s law
Hooke´s law
Hubble´s law
ideal gas law
Lenz´s law
Murphy´s law
Ohm´s law
pass law
Scots law
Snell´s law
Sod´s law

Synonyms and antonyms of Parkinson's law in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Parkinson's law» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PARKINSON'S LAW

Find out the translation of Parkinson's law to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Parkinson's law from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Parkinson's law» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

帕金森定律
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

La ley de Parkinson
570 millions of speakers

English

Parkinson´s law
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पार्किंसंस कानून
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

قانون باركنسون
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Закон Паркинсона
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Lei de Parkinson
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পারকিনসন্স আইন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

La loi de Parkinson
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Undang-undang Parkinson
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Parkinson- Gesetz
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

パーキンソンの法則
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

파킨슨 의 법칙
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hukum Parkinson
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Pháp luật Parkinson
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பார்கின்சன் சட்டம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पार्किन्सनचा कायदा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Parkinson yasası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

La legge di Parkinson
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Prawo Parkinsona
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Закон Паркінсона
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Legea lui Parkinson
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Νόμος του Πάρκινσον
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Parkinson se wet
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Parkinsons lag
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

Parkinsons lov
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Parkinson's law

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PARKINSON'S LAW»

The term «Parkinson's law» is normally little used and occupies the 131.184 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PARKINSON'S LAW» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Parkinson's law

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PARKINSON'S LAW»

Discover the use of Parkinson's law in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Parkinson's law and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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C. Northcote Parkinson's Parkinson's Law: A modern-day ...
Working around the premise 'work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion’ Parkinson explores the realities of human behaviour within a bureaucracy.
Leo Gough, 2011
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Parkinson's Law: Or the Pursuit of Progress
Satire.
Cyril Northcote Parkinson, 1965
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Parkinson's Law, and Other Studies in Administration
To the very young, schoolteachers, and those who compile textbooks about constitutional history, politics and current affirs, the world is a more or less rational place.
Cyril Northcote Parkinson, 1957
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Parkinson's Law
The answer is Parkinson's Law. According to Parkinson's Law, bureaucracies tend to expand for two main reasons: first, that bureaucrats naturally make extra work for each other, and second, that bureaucrats like to increase the number of ...
Leo Gough, 2011
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Parkinson, the law, complete
A compilation of Parkinson's work discusses his first immutable law of business--that work expands to fill the time available--and presents several laws and observations that confirm Parkinson's original insights
Cyril Northcote Parkinson, 1983
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The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Succes
Parkinson's Law is one of the best known and the most important laws of money and wealth accumulation. It was developed by English writer C. Northcote Parkinson many years ago, and it explains why most people retire poor. This law says ...
Brian Tracy, 2002
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Project Management That Works: Real-World Advice on ...
Although many individuals will complete their income tax filing sooner than April 15, there are enough people proving Parkinson's Law to warrant changes to a government agency's procedures. It is also important to realize that most project ...
Rick A. MORRIS, Brette MCWHORTER SEMBER, 2008
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Management in Health Care
... effective and efficient time Solutions to immediate problems also advance long- term plans Figure I.I Reactive/proactive management Parkinson's law Parkinson's law was coined with a degree of humour but proves to be startlingly accurate.
Neil Wheeler, Diana Grice, 2000
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Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
riting in 1954, the British author C. Northcote Parkinson intro- duced the notion that work expands to fill the time allocated for it, now known as Parkinson's Law. If you didn't know that few managers receive any management training at all, you ...
Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister, 2013
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Project Management in the Fast Lane: Applying the Theory of ...
Parkinson's Law is a major cause of lost productivity, and it's almost invisible. In fact, it's much more pervasive than most people believe. Frequently the people obeying it don't realize what they're doing. The worker must slow down or make ...
Robert C. Newbold, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PARKINSON'S LAW»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Parkinson's law is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Not-To-Do List: 9 Habits to Stop Now
Review Parkinson's Law in 4HWW and force yourself to cram within tight hours so your per-hour productivity doesn't fall through the floor. «Pulse, Jul 15»
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You can't buy happiness
I think you're on to something here – Parkinson's Law has application across a wide range of phenomena. I suppose you can take comfort from ... «Lancashire Telegraph, Jul 15»
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Just because there's money, you don't have to spend it all
Remember Parkinson's Law, “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion”? Well, Mr. Moss is applying its Miami corollary: ... «Miami Today, Jul 15»
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8 Ways To Accelerate Your Success
Parkinson's Law states that work increases based on how much time we have. If we wait til the absolute last minute to do those things which ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
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Cure the Overtime Epidemic: 5 Ways to Help Your Employees Work …
Parkinson's law reminds us that work expands relative to the time allowed for its completion. But very few organizations have insight into their ... «Business 2 Community, Jul 15»
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Why We Miss Deadlines, And How To Stop
Parkinson's law is an adage that says “work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” Or, in other words, a task will take up as ... «Lifehacker Australia, Jul 15»
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Big noise, small budget offer little help for poor neighbourhoods
... emotionally-charged debate, we mustn't discount Parkinson's Law of Triviality, which states that the time a decision-making body spends on ... «MetroNews Canada, Jul 15»
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7 Reasons Why Your Meetings Are A Waste Of Time
Parkinson's Law: Team members take as long to conduct the meeting as was posted on the agenda, whether or not that much time was actually ... «Business 2 Community, Jul 15»
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Save water, go vegetarian
According to Parkinson's Law of Trivialities, organizations give disproportionate weight (attention) to trivial issues, rather than more difficult and ... «Santa Maria Sun, Jul 15»
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Kagiso interactive shares: ios 9 will delete apps to make room for …
And then there are the corollaries to Parkinson's law -- the one that says, "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion" ... «WhaTech, Jun 15»

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