toil
Noun
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Productive work (especially physical work done for wages) (synset 100621992)
"his labor did not require a great deal of skill"is a type of: work - activity directed toward making or doing somethingsubtypes:
- roping - capturing cattle or horses with a lasso
- corvee - unpaid labor (as for the maintenance of roads) required by a lord of his vassals in lieu of taxes
- donkeywork, drudgery, grind, plodding - hard monotonous routine work
- effort, elbow grease, exertion, sweat, travail - use of physical or mental energy; hard work
- hunt, hunting - the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
- hackwork - professional work done according to formula
- haymaking - cutting grass and curing it to make hay
- manual labor, manual labour - labor done with the hands
- overwork, overworking - the act of working too much or too long
- slavery - work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay
Verb
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Work hard (synset 202424873)
"She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
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