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toil::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | labor, labour |
| Type of | work |
| Has types | donkeywork, drudgery, effort, elbow grease, exertion, grind, hackwork, haymaking, hunt, hunting, manual labor, manual labour, overwork, overworking, plodding, roping, slavery, sweat, travail, corvee |
Examples of toil
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The first time around, researchers were able to toil away in their labs quietly.
From the foxnews.com
Toil in any industry for a while, and you develop a sixth sense about bad omens.
From the washingtonpost.com
At his accession, the average Bhutanese died at 40 after a life of uneased toil.
From the economist.com
It is such Croesus-like sums that make start-ups worth all the toil and trouble.
From the economist.com
As you toil, your character graduates to higher levels, up to a top level of 70.
From the washingtonpost.com
For the Gosselins, it's a welcome change of pace from the usual toil and trouble.
From the abcnews.go.com
She made them toil for 21 hours a day and tortured them if they displeased her.
From the independent.co.uk
At the Willard, 600 full-time workers toil, helped by 1,300 part-time volunteers.
From the time.com
It's not just researchers who toil for years sifting through mountains of data.
From the washingtonpost.com
- Labor: productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
- Labor: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
- (toiling) drudging: doing arduous or unpleasant work; "drudging peasants"; "the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton"; "toiling coal miners in the black deeps"
- Labour, work; trouble, strife; to labour, to work; to struggle
- Acronym standing for time off in lieu (in lieu means in place of) Typically, TOIL is used to grant additional time off in place of payment for additional hours worked.
- (n): net, snare. FS (5-LLL, JC, Ham, A&C, Pericles); Golding Ovid; Edwards Dam&Pith; Kyd Sol&Per; Greene Fr Bac; Marlowe Dido, Massacre; (anon.) Woodstock, Arden.
- To labor continuously; work strenuously, work hard, plug away, toil
- Time Off In Leiu, or time you get to take off in exchange for working overtime on a project / assignment / proposal
