manual work
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmanualandwork
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manual
adjective
uk/ˈmæn.ju.əl/us/ˈmæn.ju.əl/
done with ...
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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 ofmanualandworkfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmanual work
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The economic efficiency potential of using robots is defined by construction quantities, a high level ofmanualwork, and hard and unfavorable working conditions.
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However, the text does not settle on this view ofmanualwork, oscillating instead between the two alternatives.
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Three of these were divorced or separated, two mild cases, the third more disabled, all doingmanualworkand losing very little time from work.
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Considerablemanualworkis required to change the model from its original state on the left to a variant state on the right.
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Their wearers' fingernails 'are sharpened after the manner of falcons or hawks', which certainly suggests they do nomanualwork.
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Thus, the scrutiny of the allocated schoolbook budgets was highly time-consuming and required a lot ofmanualwork.
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Unskilledmanualworkis an alternative to farming, but underemployment is common.
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The recommended solutions were education by health visitors, nursery schools and caseworkers who could rehabilitate families throughmanualwork.
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All the women worked on the family farms and this included both work inside the home andmanualworkon the farm.
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When in paid-work, the majority had been employed in service occupations,manualwork, or semi-skilled and skilled work in the tailoring and engineering trades.
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Food with roughage, as that grotesque metaphor of eating asmanualworkwith a shovel suggests, was a return to virile rough labor from the inside out.
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She makes important observations about themanualworkof the friars themselves at her sites, and the stratagems employed to circumvent the prohibition on the handling of money.
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This graph indicates that textile employment peaked in the 1840s and in 1850 whenmanualworkwas expanding and technological advances had been introduced in spinning.
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Of these 1,419 involved the performance of wagedmanualworkand the remaining 231 relate to those employees who received expenses for tasks undertaken during the course of their duties.
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Slightly increased rations are issued to prisoners engaged in heavymanualwork.
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I am not concerned only with those engaged in heavymanualworkor in the processes carrying obvious health hazards.
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More mechanisation in agriculture may mean lessmanualworkfor farmers and their workers.
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