Tasks vs Scutwork - What's the difference?
tasks | scutwork |
tasks that are tedious and monotonous or trivial and menial, usually inherent in the operations of a larger project
* 2000 , Harvey Robbins and Michael Finley, The New Why Teams Don't Work: What Goes Wrong and How to Make It Right
* 2003 , Julia Spencer-Fleming, In the Bleak Midwinter
As nouns the difference between tasks and scutwork
is that tasks is plural of lang=en while scutwork is tasks that are tedious and monotonous or trivial and menial, usually inherent in the operations of a larger project.As a verb tasks
is third-person singular of task.scutwork
English
Alternative forms
* scut workNoun
(-)- Everyone on a team must pull their fair share of scutwork if the team is to succeed.
- Hard to keep that edge of horror over the death of another human being when it was surrounded by so much tedious scutwork .
References
* 2003 , William S. Haubrich, Medical Meanings: A Glossary of Word Origins ,Page 216* 1990 , George Morley Story, Dictionary of Newfoundland English ,
page 448