Spadework

Quick meaning: Spadework is a noun meaning Work done by digging with a spade.

Meaning

Work done by digging with a spade.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) Work done in preparation for something else.

Example Sentences

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.

It is this help that the present book attempts to give, and the moment of its appearance, during a partial lull of excavation, is an opportune one. There is a chance to take breath and gather up the threads, with the possibility that the next month's spade-work will not put us out of date.

Removing a portion of chair which had got entangled in my back hair, I said with a candour that became me well: “I was looking for a mouse.” If she had replied, “Ah, yes, indeed. I understand now. A mouse, to be sure. Quite,” everything would have been nice and smooth, but she didn't. “A mouse?” she said. “What do you mean?” Well, of course, if she didn't know what a mouse was, there was evidently a good deal of tedious spadework before us, and one would scarcely have known where to start.

Synonyms for spadework

Depending on context, synonyms include digging, prep, groundwork, homework.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include spading, spud, graft, spudder, grubwork, spade foot.

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