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Meanings of spadework in English
Work preparing or laying the ground for something that is planned to come later.
Synonyms
Examples for "preliminary"
Examples for "preliminary"
1
Eisenhower at the summit: 'What U-Twos?' We'll go along; no preliminary summation.
2
That issue has been resolved at a preliminary level, the officials said.
3
However, Germany does not expect even a preliminary decision in that timeframe.
4
A preliminary finding is not expected until early 2011, government officials said.
5
The EU team will deliver a preliminary report later in the week.
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The Six Core Principles for Optimal Health provide the groundwork for prevention.
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Heavy rain and flooding would have prevented any significant groundwork, for example.
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Both are risky, but a bit of groundwork goes a long way.
4
In short, the experienced producer lays the groundwork as efficiently as possible.
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But all agree that he and his colleagues are laying important groundwork.
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The injunction was a preparatory measure ahead of a Dec. 5 hearing of a lawsuit filed by Konstantin Ponomaryov, a former IKEA contractor.
2
Either the proprietors must be concealing or misinterpreting the law, or this was merely a preparatory measure, which would be followed by the real Emancipation.
3
As a preparatory measure, Farmer Blaize seized a wing of the bird, on which both boys flung themselves desperately, and secured it minus the pinion.
4
On the 26th she had prescribed for the railroads the preparatory measures for concentration.
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Before proceeding, then, to the immediate measures for inducing sleep, let us consider the suitable preparatory measures.
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A great preparatory work had been done in the ten years previous.
2
That person who holds the keys of Elias hath a preparatory work.
3
Some have done preparatory work in recent months, the sources added.
4
The policy document came out of the preparatory work for the Arts Plan.
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The size of the potential financing will require some preparatory work.
Usage of spadework in English
1
All I'm asking right now is for you to do some spadework.
2
Because magic, like leadership, is one-tenth genius and nine-tenths spadework.
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The spadework was all done by the medical staff of the Occupied Enemy Territory Administration.
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But the actual spadework was a mere empty form.
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Promoters are going to have to do some spadework now and actually promote the show.
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The BBC's intellectual spadework is still done mainly by men of a similar outlook and type.
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To my surprise, Cavallo's pledge to devote her free time to spadework on Salazar pays quick dividends.
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You'll have to do the spadework, Watkins.
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And even if you break up terror cells by other means, give public credit to your online spadework.
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But the preliminary spadework depends heavily on human rights organisations and volunteers -and it's almost always dangerous.
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Now that you're panicked about the business, consider too that the show has some hard storytelling spadework ahead.
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Preliminary spadework must be put in.
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He also lobbies for a body to do the research and argument preparation spadework to bolster the pro-union case.
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While Edward works on that, the rest of us need to concentrate on the spadework to prepare public opinion.
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Peter tended to do the spadework and Cloughie came into deals right at the end with the impact thing.
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Just long enough-forBerry to pitch in and capitalize on her own earlier spadework to settle it all down.
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Spadework through the time