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SPADEWORK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does spadework mean?
• SPADEWORK (noun)
The noun SPADEWORK has 1 sense:
1. dull or routine preliminary work preparing for an undertaking
Familiarity information: SPADEWORK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dull or routine preliminary work preparing for an undertaking
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("spadework" is a kind of...):
work (activity directed toward making or doing something)
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"Flatter the mother to get the girl." (Corsican proverb)