grunt-levelとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

grunt-level (comparative more grunt-level, superlative most grunt-level)

1. At the lowest, basic, unsophisticated level.
   • 2016, David Means, Hystopia: A Novel

     We're talking about grunt-level thinking, and to get to that you have to go to the random particulars, or the particulars that seem to map out the random.

関連する語

• grunt work
• grunt (a person who does ordinary かつ boring work)

形容詞

grunt level (comparative more grunt level, superlative most grunt level)

1. Alternative form of grunt-level

名詞

grunt level (uncountable)

1. (idiomatic) The lowest, basic, least sophisticated level.
   • 2008, John Ringo, The Last Centurion

     The point being that most of the work at the grunt level was not being done by FEMA, which never had many bodies, or even by the National Guard, which should have had many more bodies, but by Regular Army units.

   • 2011, Keith Nolan, Death Valley: The Summer Offensive, I Corps, August 1969

     This is a book about war at the grunt level, and another reviewer was good enough to remark that the story is “told straight.”

関連する語

• grunt (a person who does ordinary かつ boring work)