ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Hackwork

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Hackwork is a noun meaning (informal) Work that is usually of a professional nature, either repetitive or following a certain formula.

Meaning

(informal) Work that is usually of a professional nature, either repetitive or following a certain formula.

More Meanings

  1. (informal, somewhat derogatory) Any type of work that is dull or unoriginal.

Example Sentences

Early on, the film even blunders into outright hackwork, employing laughably literal-minded needle drops.
During those fifteen months, he cannot have earned more than $10 a month from writing, mostly from the worst sort of hackwork

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hack, hacking, hackaround, hackathon, geeksploitation, codework.

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