[ noun ] a portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play <noun.artifact>
Trade's inevitable troubles, however, are a politician's playpen.
It has given Tehran "a bigger playpen to operate in" by handing autonomy to six Muslim-dominated former Soviet republics to Iran's north, says former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger.
Or the administration might want to wait till after the election and give the post to Pat Buchanan, an unfailingly creative prose artist who recently dubbed the agency the "upholstered playpen of the arts and crafts wing of the Democratic Party."