Associations to the word «Spadework»

Wiktionary

SPADEWORK, noun. Work done by digging with a spade.
SPADEWORK, noun. (figuratively) Work done in preparation for something else.

Dictionary definition

SPADEWORK, noun. Dull or routine preliminary work preparing for an undertaking.

Wise words

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates