spadework
IPA: spˈeɪdwɝk
noun
- Work done by digging with a spade.
- (figuratively) Work done in preparation for something else.
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Examples of "spadework" in Sentences
- I want to do some more spadework below.
- Just saved me the trouble of doing the spadework.
- I've done some spadework on this article have a look.
- They do a lot of the spadework and the disagreements are instructive.
- The material actually is out there, it just needs some spadework to be found.
- It'll be tough so you might want to so some spadework first to make it easier.
- The first was just the sort of spadework that indicates a valuable contributor.
- Should be easy enough to get to a B as I've already done most of the spadework.
- And he failed to perform the kind of spadework necessary to build an opposition party.
- Not enough "spadework" had been done to convert the Shaka Day celebrations from a tribal to a "national affair", President Nelson
- Previous ranking: 5 3. Newt Gingrich: For months we've been hearing that Gingrich has been doing lots of under-the-radar spadework in Iowa.
- Swift "offers more than mere technical assistance," says Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, which has done most of the spadework on the issue.
- At her Sydney farewell in 1990, she thanked Richard Bonynge – her husband, conductor and vocal trainer – for his "spadework", as if she were a shrub that required mulching.
- As a result of detailed spadework, ATF and Justice Department officials say, those cases now include strong evidence against suspected recipients of the contraband weapons.
- No, not funny, but for what its worth, Rush was/is playing off the fact that Hillary said that Obama has not done the "spadework" necessary to be president on the Today show.
- Bedding and Saul were no longer needed to track down registered owners of BMW X5's and were back at their usual assignment: post-crime canvassing, "spadework," as it was called.
- Prof Hindson said much "spadework" had to be done between the warring factions, including the holding of separate meetings in an attempt to establish a joint agenda for the resumption of peace talks.
- TMZ, the popular celebrity ambush TV show and Web site, is doing Parents TV Council's spadework for it, creating a master list to find out exactly which advertisers on MTV's sexy teen-cast "Skins" are, and which are not, pulling their plugs from the sexy teen MTV series.