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scutwork

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scut·work  (sktwûrk)
n. Informal
Monotonous work or menial tasks that have to be done usually as part of a large complex job or project.

[From scut, worthless person, perhaps from scout.]
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scutwork
n (US inf: = tedious work) → langweilige or eintönige Arbeit; → Drecksarbeit f (inf)


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We seem to like this simple idea that leadership is somehow a noble enterprise, leaving the scutwork of actually getting things done to those control-freak managers.
Its staff of law clerks, sitting as its certiorari panel, plays a large role in the selection of the few cases it agrees to decide, so that the Justices provide a model for lower court judges opting to delegate their scutwork to staff, and to limit their own chores to those that are more fun.
Someone has to manage them, turn them into accounts with specialized debit cards attached to them, and coordinate the movement of payments between providers, pharmaceutical benefit managers, and banks, and do all the scutwork of transaction processing.
 
 
 
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