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drudgery

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drudg·er·y  (drj-r)
n. pl. drudg·er·ies
Tedious, menial, or unpleasant work. See Synonyms at work.

drudgery [ˈdrʌdʒərɪ]
n pl -eries
hard, menial, and monotonous work

drudgery
dull, laborious, or menial work. — drudge, n.
See also: Work
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.drudgerydrudgery - hard monotonous routine work        
toil, labor, labour - productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"

drudgery
noun labour, grind (informal), sweat (informal), hard work, slavery, chore, fag (informal), toil, slog, donkey-work, sweated labour, menial labour, skivvying (Brit.) the drudgery of everyday life
Translations
drudgery [ˈdrʌdʒərɪ] Ntrabajo m pesado
to take the drudgery out of workhacer el trabajo menos pesado
drudgery [ˈdrʌdʒəri] ncorvée f
drudgery
nstumpfsinnige Plackerei or Schufterei (inf); it’s sheer drudgeryes ist eine einzige Plackerei
drudgery [ˈdrʌdʒrɪ] nfatica
housework is sheer drudgery → sbrigare le faccende domestiche è un lavoro pesante e ingrato
drudgery [ˈdrʌdʒrɪ] nfatica
housework is sheer drudgery → sbrigare le faccende domestiche è un lavoro pesante e ingrato


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But when the war was over, he only allowed him chaff to eat and made him carry heavy loads of wood, subjecting him to much slavish drudgery and ill-treatment.
George was taken home, and put to the meanest drudgery of the farm.
For a while she had kept both herself and the child on the twelve shillings a week that twelve hours' drudgery a day procured her, paying six shillings out of it for the child, and keeping her own body and soul together on the remainder.
 
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