drudgerydrudg‧e‧ry /ˈdrʌdʒəri/ noun [uncountable] 
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Thesaurus- Calculators were introduced to relieve students of the drudgery of pencil-and-paper number-crunching.
- Technological advances have taken much of the drudgery out of the assembly line and car plant.
- The data management system has eliminated much of the drudgery of filing.
- the endless drudgery of housework
- What seemed a promising job turned into months of boredom and drudgery.
- A powerful enough vision can transform what would otherwise be loss and drudgery into sacrifice.
- Do they conjure up the impression that children are engaged in some form of pre-Victorian drudgery at school?
- He made it more than meaningless drudgery.
- Practicing the saline song week after week can be drudgery.
- The chance to escape from the daily drudgery in the pits must have been more than attractive.
- There was nothing for girls, only drudgery and breeding, specially paupers like herself.
- Women are rebelling against domestic drudgery.
Longman Language Activatorunpleasant or boring work► grind
hard boring work things that you have to do every day, especially as part of your job, which are boring and make you feel tired: grind of: · Work feels like such a grind lately.· The relentless grind of hard labour and ill-health had taken its toll on Booth. the daily grind: · The daily grind of meetings and tutorials went on.hard grind British: · The Prime Minister is pictured taking a break from the hard grind of political life.
► be a slog British use this to say that work is difficult, boring, and tiring: · The journey across the valley to the farm is going to be a slog.hard/long slog: · It's a hard slog isn't it? I wish we'd got further yesterday.· Cutting all the wood before nightfall was a long, hard slog.
► donkey work British /grunt work American informal work that is boring or takes a lot of time and effort, but that has to be done as part of a job or larger piece of work: · I was doing grunt work for the secretary in the department, twenty hours a week.· The real donkey work was actually done by those guys.
► drudgery work that is hard and unpleasant because it is very boring, takes a long time to do, and often involves a lot of physical effort: · Technological advances have taken much of the drudgery out of the assembly line and car plant.· What seemed a promising job turned into months of boredom and drudgery.the drudgery of something: · The data management system has eliminated much of the drudgery of filing.· Calculators were introduced to relieve students of the drudgery of pencil-and-paper number-crunching.
► toil formal difficult and boring work that takes a long time: · Here began their arduous toil to force a living from the land.· man's desire for freedom from physical toil