grunt work

American  

noun

Slang.

1. work that is repetitious, often physically exhausting, and boring.

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Example Sentences

As usual, Jonah helped Dad with the grunt work — tearing stuff out and hammering stuff back in.

From Literature

Plus, why finance and tech bros are feuding over the Bloomberg terminal and how tech workers are using bots to do their grunt work.

From The Wall Street Journal

Tech workers’ new obsession is watching bots do their grunt work.

From The Wall Street Journal

He said young professionals should not shy away from doing the grunt work.

From MarketWatch

Now it belongs to a humanoid robot called Digit that was built for grunt work.

From The Wall Street Journal