| 单词 | grunt work |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrunt work 4. attributive in sense 2b (frequently as grunt work), usually designating a low-ranking but necessary occupation or task considered dull, menial, or undemanding. colloquial. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > work > [adjective] > low or menial villainc1485 servile?1518 clock-punching1920 grunt1977 1977 Fortune June 165/3 Those M.B.A.'s will spend two years or so in the bull pen crunching numbers and doing grunt work. They won't run deals themselves. 1983 G. Benford Against Infinity ii. vi. 80 As a boy he always drew more dull grunt labor than the men..and now it was pleasant to graduate up a notch and watch somebody else hustle at it. 1987 Business Rev. Weekly 2 Oct. 92/1 He took a job at Detroit law firm Clark, Klein, Winter, Parsons & Prewitt long enough to get bored with legal grunt work. 1990 Science 1 June 1078/1 Using this model you can do the systematic, grunt science—the step by step things that have to be done to work out the best vaccine. < as lemmas |
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