a backbreaking job

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• backbreaking — adjective characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort worked their arduous way up the mining valley a grueling campaign hard labor heavy work heavy going spent many laborious hours on the project set a punishing …   Useful english dictionary

• backbreaking — backbreaker, n. /bak bray king/, adj. demanding great effort, endurance, etc.; exhausting: a backbreaking job. Also, back breaking. [1780 90; BACK1 + BREAK + ING2] * * * …   Universalium

• backbreaking — back•break•ing [[t]ˈbækˌbreɪ kɪŋ[/t]] adj. demanding great effort, endurance, etc.: a backbreaking job[/ex] • Etymology: 1780–90 back′break er, n …   From formal English to slang

• job — n. task 1) to do a job 2) to take on a job 3) a backbreaking; difficult, hard job 4) odd jobs (he does odd jobs) 5) a job to + inf. (it was quite a job to find him = it was quite a job finding him = we had quite a job finding him) employment 6)… …   Combinatory dictionary

• hard job — Synonyms and related words: Augean task, Herculean task, arduousness, backbreaker, backbreaking work, ballbuster, bitch, burdensomeness, chore, dead lift, effortfulness, handful, hard labor, hard pull, hard work, heavy sledding, laboriousness,… …   Moby Thesaurus

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• task — n 1. duty, job, chore, odd job, work, devoir; assignment, lesson, exercise, homework; commission, mission, engagement, errand, quest. 2. labor, toil, drudgery, work, strain; difficulty, travail, tribulation, trial, passion; sweat, fag, grind,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder