Drudgery

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  • noun. Tedious, menial, or unpleasant work. synonym: work.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The labor of a drudge; ignoble, spiritless toil; hard work in servile or mechanical occupations.
  • noun. Synonyms Labor, Toil, etc. See work, n.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil.
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  • noun. tedious, menial and exhausting work
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. hard monotonous routine work
    • Word Usage
    "Having enough to live on, he has not been forced to work for bread; he has declined to subject himself to what he calls the drudgery of the profession, by which, I believe, he means the general work of a practising surgeon; and has found other employment."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    labor  labour  toil  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    boredom  chore  discomfort  drudge  employments  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    chore  dirty work  donkeywork  employment  fag  
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