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laboriously

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la·bo·ri·ous  (l-bôr-s, -br-)
adj.
1. Marked by or requiring long, hard work: spent many laborious hours on the project.
2. Hard-working; industrious.
[Middle English, from Old French laborieux, from Latin labrisus, from labor, labor.]
la·bori·ous·ly adv.
la·bori·ous·ness n.
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Adv.1.laboriously - in a laborious manner; "their lives were spent in committee making decisions for others to execute on the basis of data laboriously gathered for them"
Translations
laboriously [ləˈbɔːrɪəslɪ] ADV [work] → laboriosamente (pej) [write] → farragosamente
laboriously [ləˈbɔːriəsli] adv → laborieusement
labor union n (US) → syndicat m
laboriously
adv → mühsam; speak → umständlich
laboriously [ləˈbɔːrɪəslɪ] adv → faticosamente, laboriosamente
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