spadework

/speyd-wurk/US // ˈspeɪdˌwɜrk //UK // (ˈspeɪdˌwɜːk) //

铲屎官,铲运工作,铲运工,铲球

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : preliminary or initial work, such as the gathering of data, on which further activity is to be based.

Steal her brainchild, negate all my efforts to make her independent and cheat me of the reward of my spadework.
You have to do the spadework in order to be aware of every possibility that might develop?
I'm not going to do the spadework and let her reap the harvest.
But at night, when Patriot spadework is over, figure the sacred rights of hospitality!
He that has four limbs, and a French heart, can do spadework; and will!