'spadework' definitions:
Definition of 'spadework'
(from WordNet)
noun
Dull or routine preliminary work preparing for an undertaking
Synonyms of 'spadework'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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