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spadeworkspade‧work /ˈspeɪd-wɜːk $ -wɜːrk/ noun [uncountable] - Most of the spadework in the research was done by grad students.
- As things are, he has not only to invent his method, but also do most of the spadework for himself.
- By 1981 much of the intellectual spadework for the Reagan presidency had been done.
- Meanwhile the soldiers were getting some help with the spadework.
- She helped with the spadework in the early days of the Wisley garden, I had learned.
- The intellectual spadework for a compromise on Jerusalem has been done; the ingredient the process has lacked is not time.
- They helped dig the badgers' new home ... there were also a few young recruits on hand to help with the spadework.
- Two scholars have done some particularly valuable linguistic spadework.
- With Husqvarna, that pleasure comes without the spadework.
► the spadework ... done Most of the spadework had been done by 1981. hard work that has to be done in preparation before something can happen SYN legwork: Most of the spadework had been done by 1981. |