Scutwork
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scutwork
(uncountable)- tasks that are tedious and monotonous or trivial and menial, usually inherent in the operations of a larger project
- 2000, Harvey Robbins and Michael Finley, The New Why Teams Don't Work: What Goes Wrong and How to Make It RightEveryone on a team must pull their fair share of scutwork if the team is to succeed.
- 2003, Julia Spencer-Fleming, In the Bleak MidwinterHard to keep that edge of horror over the death of another human being when it was surrounded by so much tedious scutwork.