Usually means: Repeated tasks for incremental progress.
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  1. grinds: Merriam-Webster
  2. grinds: Collins English Dictionary
  3. grinds: Vocabulary.com
  4. Grind's, Grinds, grinds: Wordnik
  5. grinds: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. grinds: Wiktionary
  7. grinds: Dictionary.com
  8. grinds: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Grinds (skateboarding), Grinds: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. grinds: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grinds: Legal dictionary

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  1. grinds: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grinds: Idioms

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  1. grinds: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (grinds)

▸ noun:  (Ireland, colloquial) Tutoring; extra lessons in a specific subject outside of school hours.
▸ noun:  (Hawaii, slang) Food, eats.
▸ noun:  (coffee, proscribed) Used ground coffee, coffee grounds.

Similar:
comminute, pulverization, cranch, dig, craunch, mill, crunch, bray, grate, swot, more...

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coarse, medium, fine, extra-fine, Turkish, more...

Phrases:
grinds out, grinds on, grinds down, grinds away, grinds to a halt, more...

Adjectives:
few, greasy, fine, several, coarse, different, daily, long, gurdy, various, handquern



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Similar:
comminute, pulverization, cranch, dig, craunch, mill, crunch, bray, grate, swot, more...

Types:
coarse, medium, fine, extra-fine, Turkish, more...

Phrases:
grinds out, grinds on, grinds down, grinds away, grinds to a halt, grinds up, grinds my gears, grinds against, more...

Adjectives:
few, greasy, fine, several, coarse, different, daily, long, gurdy, various, handquern



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