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scutwork

scutwork noun: tasks that are tedious and monotonous or trivial and menial, usually inherent in the operations of a larger project.

Noun

scutwork (uncountable)

  1. Tasks that are tedious and monotonous or trivial and menial, usually inherent in the operations of a larger project.
    • Everyone on a team must pull their fair share of scutwork if the team is to succeed.2000, Harvey Robbins, Michael Finley, The New Why Teams Don't Work: What Goes Wrong and How to Make It Right
    • Hard to keep that edge of horror over the death of another human being when it was surrounded by so much tedious scutwork.2003, Julia Spencer-Fleming, In the Bleak Midwinter

Forms of scutwork

alternative formscut work

Origin of scutwork

From scut + work; see scut (“contemptible person”).

Questions about scutwork

What does scutwork mean?
Scutwork means tasks that are tedious and monotonous or trivial and menial, usually inherent in the operations of a larger project.
What part of speech is scutwork?
Scutwork is a noun.

Words near scutwork in the dictionary

  1. Scutts
  2. scutula
  3. scutulum
  4. scutum
  5. scutums
  6. scutwork
  7. scuz
  8. scuzz
  9. scuzz bucket
  10. scuzz buckets
  11. scuzz up

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