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Academic gets important job, but it's drudgery
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donkeywork
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
donkeywork \donkeywork\ n. hard menial routine work. Syn: drudgery, grind, scut work.
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n. hard monotonous routine work [syn: drudgery , plodding , grind ]
Usage examples of donkeywork.
Turner had managed to get them up to a certain crude level of donkeywork: slicing wood, stirring glue, hauling heavy bundles of lumber.
You get you a crookback and maybe twenty bags of charcoal for all that heat and dirt and donkeywork, and twenty bags ain't going to buy a living.
When it was surprised, Taffy Three was eighty miles north of the entrance to Leyte Gulf, doing the donkeywork of amphibious warfare.