"spadework" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "spade + work",
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      "expansion": "spadework (uncountable)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "spadeworker"
    }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page vii",
          "text": "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chance to take breath and gather up the threads, with the possibility that the next month's spade-work will not put us out of date.",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Work done by digging with a spade."
      ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "83 17",
          "sense": "work done by digging with a spade",
          "word": "digging"
        }
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      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "83 17",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "rabota s lopata",
          "sense": "work done by digging with a spade",
          "word": "работа с лопата"
        }
      ]
    },
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        {
          "text": "There's a lot of spadework to be done before the scheme can be implemented."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VIII",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1964 February, “British Railways' passenger plans”, in Modern Railways, page 73",
          "text": "Some essential spadework, on which certain details of the plan will be founded, is yet unfinished.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Work done in preparation for something else."
      ],
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          "preparation",
          "preparation"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) Work done in preparation for something else."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "25 75",
          "sense": "work done in preparation",
          "word": "prep"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "25 75",
          "sense": "work done in preparation",
          "word": "prep work"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "25 75",
          "sense": "work done in preparation",
          "word": "preparatory work"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "25 75",
          "sense": "work done in preparation",
          "word": "groundwork"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "25 75",
          "sense": "work done in preparation",
          "word": "homework"
        }
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        {
          "_dis1": "25 75",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "rutinna podgotvitelna rabota",
          "sense": "work done in preparation",
          "word": "рутинна подготвителна работа"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "25 75",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "work done in preparation",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "bunobair"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "25 75",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "podgotóvka póčvy",
          "sense": "work done in preparation",
          "word": "подгото́вка по́чвы"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "spadework"
}

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  "etymology_text": "spade + work",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page vii",
          "text": "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.",
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        "Work done by digging with a spade."
      ],
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          "text": "There's a lot of spadework to be done before the scheme can be implemented."
        },
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          "ref": "1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VIII",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1964 February, “British Railways' passenger plans”, in Modern Railways, page 73",
          "text": "Some essential spadework, on which certain details of the plan will be founded, is yet unfinished.",
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        "(figuratively) Work done in preparation for something else."
      ],
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    {
      "sense": "work done by digging with a spade",
      "word": "digging"
    },
    {
      "sense": "work done in preparation",
      "word": "prep"
    },
    {
      "sense": "work done in preparation",
      "word": "prep work"
    },
    {
      "sense": "work done in preparation",
      "word": "preparatory work"
    },
    {
      "sense": "work done in preparation",
      "word": "groundwork"
    },
    {
      "sense": "work done in preparation",
      "word": "homework"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "rabota s lopata",
      "sense": "work done by digging with a spade",
      "word": "работа с лопата"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "rutinna podgotvitelna rabota",
      "sense": "work done in preparation",
      "word": "рутинна подготвителна работа"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "work done in preparation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bunobair"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "podgotóvka póčvy",
      "sense": "work done in preparation",
      "word": "подгото́вка по́чвы"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spadework"
}