hackwork
nounEtymology From hack + work.
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Informal 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 hackwork1978, 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:
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Derogatory, Informal Any type of work that is dull or unoriginal.