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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| Parkinson's law | |
| —n | |
| the notion, expressed facetiously as a law of economics, that work expands to fill the time available for its completion | |
| [C20: named after C. N. Parkinson (1909--93), British historian and writer, who formulated it] | |
A law propounded by the twentieth-century British scholar C. Northcote Parkinson. It states, “Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.”