Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Commissioned work, such as writing or acting, done usually by formula and in conformance with commercial standards.
- noun Tedious, monotonous, or uninteresting work of any kind.
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- noun Work, usually of a professional nature, either repetitive or done to a formula.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun professional work done according to formula
Etymologies
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Examples
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John Scalzi on media tie-ins: "The assumption that tie-in novels are all hackwork is just that, an assumption ..."
February 2009 2009
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John Scalzi on media tie-ins: "The assumption that tie-in novels are all hackwork is just that, an assumption ..."
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A big payout for our loyal hackwork from the Gnomes of Zurich?
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A big payout for our loyal hackwork from the Gnomes of Zurich?
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We accept So Fuck into the club, that means we let in hackwork.
The Walls Of The Ghetto Hal Duncan 2005
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We accept So Fuck into the club, that means we let in hackwork.
Archive 2005-12-01 Hal Duncan 2005
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But while London was guilty of occasional "hackwork," the Smoke Bellew stories are not in that category.
“I am only a wild girl, and I am afraid of the world....” 2008
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It's the worst kind of hackwork and I would think most politicians would want to avoid it.
Is this the person you want to be listening to a year from now? Ann Althouse 2008
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After years of critically well- received books that I am proud of, with income bolstered by (honest) "hackwork", I find myself no longer able to make enough (any?)
Knocking Around 2006
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At last, when a thousand feet have trodden upon a thing of inestimable price, there comes along a newspaper man, doing the driest kind of hackwork, bound to a drudgery as stale and dreary as any in life, and he sees what no man has ever seen before him, though it has been plain in view for years and years.
My Contemporaries In Fiction David Christie Murray
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