spadework

spadework
Synonyms and related words:
arrangement, basic training, briefing, clearing the decks, dirty work, donkeywork, drudgery, employment, equipment, fag, familiarization, fatigue, fixing, foundation, grind, groundwork, handiwork, handwork, industry, labor, lick, lick of work, makeready, making ready, manual labor, manufacture, mobilization, moil, planning, prearrangement, preliminaries, preliminary, preliminary act, preliminary step, prep, preparation, preparatory study, preparing, prepping, prerequisite, pretreatment, processing, propaedeutic, provision, rat race, readying, scut work, slavery, stroke, stroke of work, sweat, task, tiresome work, toil, training, travail, treadmill, treatment, trial, tryout, warm-up, work

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  • spadework — ► NOUN ▪ hard or routine preparatory work …   English terms dictionary

  • spadework — [spād′wʉrk΄] n. preparatory work for some main project, esp. when tiresome or difficult …   English World dictionary

  • Spadework — Infobox Book | name = Spadework image caption = author = Timothy Findley cover artist = country = Canada language = English genre = Novel publisher = HarperCollins Canada (hardcover) release date = August 30, 2001 media type = Print (Hardcover,… …   Wikipedia

  • spadework — [[t]spe͟ɪdwɜː(r)k[/t]] N SING: usu the N The spadework is the uninteresting work that has to be done as preparation before you can start a project or activity. It is now that the spadework has to be done to lay firm foundations for later success …   English dictionary

  • spadework — spade|work [ˈspeıd wə:k US wə:rk] n [U] hard work that has to be done in preparation before something can happen = ↑legwork ▪ Most of the spadework had been done by 1981 …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • spadework — noun (U) hard work that has to be done in preparation before something can happen: Credit must go to the researchers, who did a lot of the spadework …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • spadework — noun Date: 1778 1. work done with a spade 2. the hard plain preliminary drudgery in an undertaking …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • spadework — /spayd werrk /, n. preliminary or initial work, such as the gathering of data, on which further activity is to be based. [1770 80; SPADE1 + WORK] * * * …   Universalium

  • spadework — noun a) Work done by digging with a spade. b) Work done in preparation for something else. Syn: digging, prep, preparatory …   Wiktionary

  • Spadework — social interaction preliminary to sexual advance …   Dictionary of Australian slang

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