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hackwork en · NOUN

Etymology

From hack + work.

Meanings

1. (countable, informal, uncountable) Work that is usually of a professional nature, either repetitive or following a certain formula.
   • During those fifteen months, he cannot have earned more than $10 a month from writing, mostly from the worst sort of hackwork 1978, Andrew Sinclair, Jack. A Biography of Jack London., page 56:
   • Early on, the film even blunders into outright hackwork, employing laughably literal-minded needle drops. 2019 July 3, Mike D'Angelo, “Oscar Isaac and Ben Affleck blunder through a heavy heist in J.C. Chandor’s Triple Frontier”, in AV Club, archived from the original on 21 Nov 2019:
2. (countable, derogatory, informal, uncountable) Any type of work that is dull or unoriginal.

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