hackwork
English
Etymology
hack + work
Noun
hackwork (countable and uncountable, plural hackworks)
- Work, usually of a professional nature, either repetitive or done to a formula.
- 1978, Andrew Sinclair, Jack. A Biography of Jack London., page 56:
- During those fifteen months, he cannot have earned more than $10 a month from writing, mostly from the worst sort of hackwork
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