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(n)
Hard work.
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(literary) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.
An effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
(also attributively) A person who works in a low servile job.
The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
(Australian politics, informal) The Australian Labor Party.
An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
(US, Canada, vulgar, usually offensive, sometimes endearing) A homosexual man, especially (usually derogatory) an effeminate or unusual one.
An expenditure of physical or mental effort.
Exhausting, menial, and tedious work.
(uncountable) Employment.
(soccer) A free transfer.
An American television channel owned by Discovery Communications (formerly called The Learning Channel).
(economics) Initialism of free trade agreement.
Acronym of North American Free Trade Agreement
(v)
(intransitive) To walk slowly or doggedly, encountering resistance.
(countable, business, economics) Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole. Trade.
(intransitive) To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.
To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for or against), to contend.
(biology) A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.
(informal) To work.
A sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal; assiduous or persistent activity.
Trouble taken doing something; attention to detail; careful effort.
Laborious work; drudgery.
Using slaves to do work
Tiresome, thankless work; drudgery.
(idiomatic) The effort extended in (often manual) labour, and the value created thereby.
(British spelling) Alternative spelling of laboring oar. [An oar that is worked with great effort.]
A place where salt is refined and prepared commercially.
Forced servitude in the form of physically difficult labor, usually as a penal punishment.
(mining, archaic) Work done by the piece, as in non-metalliferous rock, the amount done being usually reckoned by the fathom.
Sweat (fluid).
Any mine used for the extraction of salt.
An act or an instance of slogging or working laboriously.
Drudgery.
The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture.
(figurative, UK) A place where difficult or strenuous work is done.
(derogatory) Work of low status or yielding little satisfaction.
A commercial fishing technique in which a net is dragged by a moving boat. Not to be confused with trolling, which drags (one or more) lines.
A task, especially a regularly needed task for the upkeep of a home or similar, such as cleaning or preparing meals.
(slang, derogatory, vulgar) Undesirable and demeaning work.
(computing, programming) A character (text element such as a letter or symbol).
A mill where something is ground.
(military) A system of trenches.
Vigorous study at an educational institution.
(agriculture) A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
The time of retiring to rest.
Tedious digging or (figurative) research.
A short, erect tail, as of a hare, rabbit, or deer.
(UK, historical) Work done by tailors on soldiers' clothes.
The act of one who trudges, or walks slowly and heavily.
The act of one who tills.
(adj)
Progressing slowly and laboriously.
(idiomatic, singular only) A small amount of work.
Unprofitable work that is necessary as a preliminary, e.g. preparing a mine before ore can be extracted.
Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.
(figuratively) Hasty, slovenly work of any kind.
(idiomatic) Effort or hard work, especially physical work involving repeated motion of the forearm, such as scrubbing.
A decorative metalware having a lacquered or enamelled surface that is painted or gilded.
Tasks that are tedious and monotonous or trivial and menial, usually inherent in the operations of a larger project.
Agricultural work done outdoors in the fields.
Alternative form of streamwork. [(mining) A place where an alluvial deposit of tin ore is worked.]
The water supply system of a district, town, city, or other place, including reservoirs, pipes, and pumps.
A tannery.
A heavy load.
(figuratively) Work done in preparation for something else.
(UK dialectal) Branch; twig; shoot.
(uncountable) Work done out in the real world rather than in controlled conditions.
(dated) Work contracted for, or taken by the lump.
The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowning; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown.
The job of feeding coal into a furnace.
(chiefly Scottish) A piece of waste ground where rubbish is deposited.
(usually attributive) A temporary cessation of work.
Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
Work in stone smoothed by rubbing with gritstone or similar.
Suffering, torment.
Tar, especially boiled tar.
The act of one who treads.
(mining) A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.
(archaic) A combat requiring arduous effort.
Fabric made from putting together rags (old cloth)
(mining) The construction of passages, air-shafts, etc.
The work of a roustabout.
The pipes, together with the joints, tanks, stopcocks, taps, and other fixtures of a water, gas, or sewage system in a house or other building.
A system of trestles, especially one used to support a bridge.
The empty weight of a container; unladen weight.
One who or that which oils.
(UK, dialectal, agriculture, historical or archaic, Scotland) The dung of livestock left on a field to serve as manure or fertiliser.
The cultivation of arable land by plowing, sowing and raising crops.
The colter of a plough.
(UK, dialect) A sheaf; a handful.
(UK, Cornwall, dialect, obsolete) A great quantity or heap.