hack-work
(ˈhækwɜːk)
[hack n.3]
Work done by a hack or hired drudge; esp. literary work which a person is hired by a publisher, editor, or other, to do.
| 1851 Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. I. 60 Trade hack-work is of course out of the question. 1875 Hamerton Intell. Life v. ii. (1876) 182 Literary hack-work. 1881 Masson in Macm. Mag. XLV. 159 Such articles of hack-work as might be intrusted conveniently to an unknown young man on the spot. |