laborious work
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflaboriousandwork
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laborious
adjective
uk/ləˈbɔː.ri.əs/us/ləˈbɔːr.i.əs/
needing a lot of time ...
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work
noun
uk/wɜːk/us/wɝːk/
an activity, such as a job, that a person uses physical or mental effort to do, usually ...
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(Definition oflaboriousandworkfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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I can look back upon a period when women were doinglaboriousworkat the pithead.
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Therefore, one spends a great deal of time doinglaboriouswork.
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It must have been difficult andlaboriouswork.
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During this period he was doinglaboriousworkbut did not complain that it was too hard for him.
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In spite of their artificial limbs, many of these men have had to do hard andlaboriouswork.
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It gives tremendous promise so far aslaboriousworkis concerned; it is a promise of an entirely new life.
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We have to go round the companies and try to get men to take up difficult,laboriousworkwith the specialist platoon.
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In the past, this country got out of the problem of unpleasant andlaboriousworkby the whiplash of unemployment.
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The revision of an actuarial life table which is here involved, is a very lengthy andlaboriouswork.
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Seeing that these men are working at verylaboriouswork, does he expect that they are going to work for military wages?
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A man cannot perform as muchlaboriousworkat that temperature as at temperatures of 40, 50 or 60 degrees.
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Thousands are anxious for work but cannot find it, and thousands, by reason of prolonged un- employment and under-nourishment, are physically unfit forlaboriouswork.
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They are capable of changing themselves and of rising above the enormouslylaboriousworkwhich they have had to engage in for so many thousands of years.
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Toolmaking to-day is skilled andlaboriouswork, and these automatic machines will need skilled men to make them, skilled men to operate them, and skilled men to maintain them.
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One thing which it is very important to get understood is that higher productivity does not usually mean harder or morelaboriousworkor longer hours, but more effective work.
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For instance, such things as the beet raising machine would do away with a great deal of thelaboriousworkin the lifting of sugar beet.
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There is a great deal of unemployment, and, obviously, the first people who will be called upon to do this verylaboriousworkwill be ex-miners.
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The construction of "tongkonan" islaboriousworkand it is usually built with the help of all family members.
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The construction of a "tongkonan" islaboriousworkand is usually done with the help of the extended family.
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It was slowlaboriousworkwith men, horses, picks, shovels and very little machinery.
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