Work preparing or laying the ground for something that is planned to come later.
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 .
3 The spadework was all done by the medical staff of the Occupied Enemy Territory Administration.
4 But the actual spadework was a mere empty form.
5 Promoters are going to have to do some spadework now and actually promote the show.
6 The BBC's intellectual spadework is still done mainly by men of a similar outlook and type.
7 To my surprise, Cavallo's pledge to devote her free time to spadework on Salazar pays quick dividends.
8 You'll have to do the spadework , Watkins.
9 And even if you break up terror cells by other means, give public credit to your online spadework .
10 But the preliminary spadework depends heavily on human rights organisations and volunteers -and it's almost always dangerous.
11 Now that you're panicked about the business, consider too that the show has some hard storytelling spadework ahead.
12 Preliminary spadework must be put in.
13 He also lobbies for a body to do the research and argument preparation spadework to bolster the pro-union case.
14 While Edward works on that, the rest of us need to concentrate on the spadework to prepare public opinion.
15 Peter tended to do the spadework and Cloughie came into deals right at the end with the impact thing.
16 Just long enough-forBerry to pitch in and capitalize on her own earlier spadework to settle it all down.
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