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S________
Definitions
dull or routine preliminary work preparing for an undertaking
Word origin
From spade + work.
Used in a sentence
“There's a lot of spadework to be done before the scheme can be implemented.”
“Some essential spadework, on which certain details of the plan will be founded, is yet unfinished.”
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