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Spadework

noun

Noun

1
Work done by digging with a spade. uncountable
"It is this help that the present book attempts to give, and the moment of its appearance, during a partial lull of excavation, is an opportune one. There is a chance to take breath and gather up the threads, with the possibility that the next month's spade-work will not put us out of date."
2
dull or routine preliminary work preparing for an undertaking wordnet
3
Work done in preparation for something else. figuratively, uncountable
"There's a lot of spadework to be done before the scheme can be implemented."

From spade + work.

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