Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Tedious, menial, or unpleasant work. synonym: work.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The labor of a drudge; ignoble, spiritless toil; hard work in servile or mechanical occupations.
- noun Synonyms Labor, Toil, etc. See
work , n.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
tedious ,menial andexhausting work
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun hard monotonous routine work
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Examples
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Having enough to live on, he has not been forced to work for bread; he has declined to subject himself to what he calls the drudgery of the profession, by which, I believe, he means the general work of a practising surgeon; and has found other employment.
The Warden 2004
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Having enough to live on, he has not been forced to work for bread; he has declined to subject himself to what he calls the drudgery of the profession, by which, I believe, he means the general work of a practising surgeon; and has found other employment.
The Warden Anthony Trollope 1848
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For these people, a management role which involves administrative drudgery is both a refuge, and a means for advancing one's career to a higher salary scale.
Archive 2009-02-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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How much drudgery is involved in putting a centerpiece on the dining table?
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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How much drudgery is involved in making a sandwich and a pot of tea?
The Better Part 2008
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How much drudgery is involved in putting a centerpiece on the dining table?
The Better Part 2008
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How much drudgery is involved in making a sandwich and a pot of tea?
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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The “AI” approach is so positive it makes the other methods seem to wallow in drudgery of the problems.
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Here in the Eastern Conference final, where half-court drudgery is dictated by a Detroit Pistons outfit that wants no part of sleek showmanship, NBA basketball becomes less an art than a painstaking process both to play and watch.
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Therefore, I maintain that capacity for work, and even drudgery, is among the essentials of story-telling.
bilby commented on the word drudgery
"Many gardeners will agree that hand-weeding is not the terrible drudgery that it is often made out to be. Some people find in it a kind of soothing monotony. It leaves their minds free to develop the plot for their next novel or to perfect the brilliant repartee with which they should have encountered a relative's latest example of unreasonableness.
- Christopher Lloyd, 'The Well-Tempered Garden', 1973.
October 30, 2008