grunt level
noun1
Idiomatic The lowest, basic, least sophisticated level.
- The point being that most of the work at the grunt level was not being done by FEMA, which never had many bodies, or even by the National Guard, which should have had many more bodies, but by Regular Army units.2008, John Ringo, The Last Centurion:
- This is a book about war at the grunt level, and another reviewer was good enough to remark that the story is “told straight.”2011, Keith Nolan, Death Valley: The Summer Offensive, I Corps, August 1969:
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