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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun spadework has 1 sense

• spadework(n = noun.act) Array - dull or routine preliminary work preparing for an undertaking; Array
is a kind of work

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THESAURUS

spadework

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

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