English

Adjective

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

1. Alternative form of grunt-level

Noun

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.”

Related terms

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