grunt work
Example Sentences
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He said “I was doing all the grunt work that GAs do. But in addition to that, I ran my own room. I ran meetings. I recruited an area in Minnesota. So it was huge. It was a big-time crash course in being a college football coach.”
From Seattle Times
She exploits this psychological vulnerability to avoid paying James and to get Danny to do all the theater’s grunt work.
From Los Angeles Times
It could do software grunt work, freeing up developers to work at a higher, or more abstract level, or it could help noncoders create simple programs.
From Science Magazine
Children are taught by what are still called governesses, and grunt work is shared — workers and owners alike wash their own dishes.
From New York Times
Police Chief Robert J. Contee III, who met High as an 18-year-old cadet doing grunt work for the command staff, called him an “icon in law enforcement.”
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
