spadework

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  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chance to take breath and gather up the threads, with the possibility that the next month's spade-work will not put us out of date.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. Work done in preparation for something else. figuratively,uncountable
    — There's a lot of spadework to be done before the scheme can be implemented.

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From spade + work.
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