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laborious work

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  • laborious — (adj.) late 14c., hard working, industrious, from O.Fr. laborios arduous, wearisome; hard working (12c., Mod.Fr. laborieux), from L. laboriosus toilsome, wearisome, troublesome, from labor (see LABOR (Cf. labor) (n.)). Meaning costing much labor …   Etymology dictionary

  • laborious — [lə bôr′ē əs] adj. [ME < OFr laborios < L laboriosus < labor, LABOR] 1. involving or calling for much hard work; difficult 2. industrious; hardworking 3. LABORED SYN. HARD laboriously adv. laboriousness n …   English World dictionary

  • laborious — laboriously, adv. laboriousness, n. /leuh bawr ee euhs, bohr /, adj. 1. requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking. 2. characterized by or requiring extreme care and much attention to detail: laborious research. 3.… …   Universalium

  • 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

  • laborious — la•bo•ri•ous [[t]ləˈbɔr i əs, ˈboʊr [/t]] adj. 1) requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance: a laborious undertaking[/ex] 2) characterized by or exhibiting excessive effort; labored 3) industrious • Etymology: 1350–1400; ME < L labōriōsus …   From formal English to slang

  • laborious — adj. 1 needing hard work or toil (a laborious task). 2 (esp. of literary style) showing signs of toil; pedestrian; not fluent. Derivatives: laboriously adv. laboriousness n. Etymology: ME f. OF laborieus f. L laboriosus (as LABOUR) …   Useful english dictionary

  • donkey work — Informal. tedious, repetitious work; drudgery. Also, donkeywork /dong kee werrk , dawng , dung /. [1915 20] * * * donkey work UK US noun [uncountable] informal boring work that needs a lot of effort but has to be done as part of a job Why do I… …   Useful english dictionary

  • bāndhanī work — ▪ Indian fabric art  Indian tie dyeing, or knot dyeing, in which parts of a silk or cotton cloth are tied tightly with wax thread before the whole cloth is dipped in a dye vat; the threads are afterward untied, the parts so protected being left… …   Universalium

  • donkey work — ► NOUN informal ▪ the laborious part of a job …   English terms dictionary

  • donkey work — noun Brit. informal the laborious part of a job …   English new terms dictionary

  • Thomas M'Crie the Elder — For his eldest son, of the same name, see Thomas M Crie the Younger.Thomas M Crie (November, 1772 August 5, 1835) was a Scottish historian, writer, and preacher born in the town of Dunse, Berwickshire in November 1772. He was the eldest of a… …   Wikipedia

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