treadmillnoun
uk/ˈtred.mɪl/us/ˈtred.mɪl/treadmill noun (REPEATED WORK)
[ S ] any type of repeated work that is boring and makes you feel tired and seems to have no positive effect and no end:
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Types of employment
- administrative
- administrative assistant
- at the coalface idiom
- backroom boys
- blue-collar
- clerk
- honorary
- lackey
- managerial
- menial
- NEET
- off-duty
- probation
- professionally
- shiftwork
- short time
- skilled
- slave labour
- subcontractor
- wilderness
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treadmill noun (EXERCISE MACHINE)
[ C ] an exercise machine that consists of a moving strip or two step-like parts on which you walk without moving forward
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Machines - generators & pumps
- -engined
- accelerator
- alternator
- breeder reactor
- charger
- dock
- docking station
- dynamo
- electromotive
- generator
- power station
- pump
- pump-action
- pumping station
- PWR
- reactor
- substation
- turbine
- turbocharger
- watermill
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treadmill noun (WHEEL)
[ C ] a wide wheel turned by the weight of people climbing on steps around its edge, used in the past to provide power for machines or, more usually, as a punishment for prisoners
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Punishing by causing pain
- birch
- cane
- cat-o'-nine-tails
- corporal punishment
- flagellate
- flay
- horsewhip
- kneecap
- lash
- lynch
- lynch law
- mortification
- mortification of the flesh idiom
- rack
- stone
- tar
- thumbscrew
- walloping
- whip
- whipping
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