| the statement, expressed facetiously as if a law of physics, that work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion. |
| Parkinson's Law n. Any of several satirical observations propounded as economic laws, especially "Work expands to fill the time available for its completion." [After Cyril Northcote Parkinson (1909-1993), British historian.] |
A law propounded by the twentieth-century British scholar C. Northcote Parkinson. It states, “Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.”
