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• laborious — la|bo|ri|ous [ləˈbo:riəs] adj taking a lot of time and effort laborious process/task/business etc ▪ Collecting the raw materials proved a long and laborious task. ▪ the laborious business of drying the crops >laboriously adv ▪ A beetle began… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• laborious — la|bo|ri|ous [ lə bɔriəs ] adjective 1. ) a laborious job or process is long, difficult, and often boring: We eventually began the laborious task of sorting through his papers. 2. ) a laborious way of doing something is slow or boring and… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• laborious — UK [ləˈbɔːrɪəs] / US [ləˈbɔrɪəs] adjective 1) a laborious job or process is long, difficult, and often boring We eventually began the laborious task of sorting through his papers. 2) a laborious way of doing something is slow or boring and… …   English dictionary

• laborious — adjective 1 laborious task/process/method etc a job or piece of work that is difficult and needs a lot of effort: the laborious task of collating all the evidence 2 seeming to be done slowly and with difficulty: laborious progress through the… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• process — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ gradual, lengthy, long, slow, time consuming ▪ constant, continuous, ongoing ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• process — pro|cess1 W1S2 [ˈprəuses US ˈpra: ] n [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: proces, from Latin processus, from procedere; PROCEED] 1.) a series of actions that are done in order to achieve a particular result ▪ the Israeli Egyptian peace… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• laborious — adj. Laborious is used with these nouns: ↑process, ↑task …   Collocations dictionary

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