English > toil: 2 senses > noun 1, act| Meaning | Productive work (especially physical work done for wages). |
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| Synonyms | labor, labour |
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| Narrower | corvee | unpaid labor (as for the maintenance of roads) required by a lord of his vassals in lieu of taxes |
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| drudgery, plodding, grind, donkeywork | Hard monotonous routine work |
| effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat | Use of physical or mental energy |
| hackwork | professional work done according to formula |
| haymaking | cutting grass and curing it to make hay |
| hunt, hunting | The work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts / pelts |
| manual labor, manual labour | labor done with the hands |
| overwork, overworking | The act of working too much or too long |
| roping | capturing cattle or horses with a lasso |
| slavery | Work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay |
| Broader | work | Activity directed toward making or doing something |
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| Spanish | faena, labor, trabajo |
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| Catalan | feina, labor, treball |
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| Verbs | toil | work hard |
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