hackwork
hackwork noun: work that is usually of a professional nature, either repetitive or following a certain formula.
Noun
hackwork (countable and uncountable, plural hackworks)
- Work that is usually of a professional nature, either repetitive or following a certain formula.
- During those fifteen months, he cannot have earned more than $10 a month from writing, mostly from the worst sort of hackwork1978, Andrew Sinclair, Jack. A Biography of Jack London., page 56
- Early on, the film even blunders into outright hackwork, employing laughably literal-minded needle drops.2019 July 3, Mike D'Angelo, “Oscar Isaac and Ben Affleck blunder through a heavy heist in J.C. Chandor’s Triple Frontier”, in AV Club, archived from the original on 21 Nov 2019
- Any type of work that is dull or unoriginal.
hackwork meaning in Urdu
hackwork in Urdu
- عام کام, بندھا ٹکا کام, لگا بندھا کام
Forms of hackwork
| plural | hackworks |
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Origin of hackwork
From hack + work.
Questions about hackwork
- What does hackwork mean?
- Hackwork means work that is usually of a professional nature, either repetitive or following a certain formula.
- What is hackwork in Urdu?
- Hackwork in Urdu is عام کام, بندھا ٹکا کام, لگا بندھا کام. See Hackwork meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is hackwork?
- Hackwork is a noun.
- What is the plural of hackwork?
- The plural of hackwork is hackworks.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: hackwork (page history and authors); hackwork (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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