spadework (n.)

• arrangement
• briefing
• donkeywork
• drudgery
• employment
• equipment
• fag
• familiarization
• fatigue
• fixing
• foundation
• grind
• groundwork
• handiwork
• handwork
• industry
• labor
• lick
• makeready
• manufacture
• mobilization
• moil
• planning
• prearrangement
• preliminary
• prep
• preparation
• prerequisite
• processing
• propaedeutic
• provision
• readying
• slavery
• stroke
• sweat
• task
• toil
• training
• travail
• treadmill
• treatment
• trial
• tryout
• warm-up
• work