laborious process
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflaboriousandprocess
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laborious
adjective
uk/ləˈbɔː.ri.əs/us/ləˈbɔːr.i.əs/
needing a lot of time ...
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process
noun[C]
uk/ˈprəʊ.ses/us/ˈprɑː.ses/
a series of actions that you take in order to achieve ...
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(Definition oflaboriousandprocessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Machine-generated taxonomies can alleviate thelaboriousprocessof manually building and maintaining taxonomies.
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Map-making is usually alaboriousprocessof displaying on paper information that one already has.
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As a result thelaboriousprocessof trial and error and the need for rules to determine a successful network configuration has been removed from the training process.
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He says it would be a long andlaboriousprocessfor which, apparently, he cannot afford the time at present.
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Checking and where necessary correcting every system is a detailed,laboriousprocess, and there is a fixed deadline for its completion.
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I speak as one who had to do that journey, and a verylaboriousprocessit was.
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Thelaboriousprocessof taxation takes time and is old-fashioned, involving the allocator, for instance.
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This has been alaboriousprocessand has not by any means reached completion, but, fortunately, clear guidelines have now been drafted for it.
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It is alaboriousprocessto which all the institutions must contribute their experience.
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I think that is a cumbrous andlaboriousprocessto invoke.
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It has been a long andlaboriousprocessbut at its back has been a respect for human rights.
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Really, this seems to me to be a verylaboriousprocess.
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It is much easier to take one photographic image than to go through thelaboriousprocessof pressing each finger on to a pad.
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It has been a mostlaboriousprocessof question and answer.
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I am afraid that it was just thelaboriousprocessof thought working itself out.
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You could not establish knowledge except by the most difficult andlaboriousprocess.
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We must continue to fight for public and judicial support for non-custodial sentences, but that is a slow andlaboriousprocess.
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The negotiations are inevitably a somewhatlaboriousprocess.
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Checking and, where necessary, correcting every system is a detailed,laboriousprocess, and there is a fixed deadline for its completion.
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It is a long andlaboriousprocesswhen one hears individual appeals.
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