donkeywork

noun

ˈdäŋ-kē-ˌwərk How to pronounce donkeywork (audio)
Definition of donkeyworknext
as in labor
very hard or unpleasant work the donkeywork involved in setting up one's own start-up software firm

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for donkeywork
  1. labor
  2. effort
  3. slavery
  4. struggle
  5. fatigue
  6. sweat
  7. grind
  8. toil
Noun
  • That might not be the worst change in labor policy for workers as Trump succeeds Biden, who may have been the most pro-union president in history.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Automation at the plant, which opened during the pandemic five years ago, has resulted in fewer finger injuries, near total lemon usage (up from 40% when done manually), and saved around 10,000 labor hours per day.
    Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of labor
Noun
  • Protecting those at-risk people from severe effects of respiratory illness and norovirus requires a group effort, said Mohammed Raja, MD, assistant professor of infectious diseases at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
    John Loeppky, Verywell Health, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Reese’s seventh double-double of the season (16 points and 10 rebounds) was crucial, but Willard cited Reese’s defensive effort as just as important.
    Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 11 Jan. 2025
Definition of effort
Noun
  • Between 1850 and 1860, it’s estimated that Harriet sheltered hundreds of people fleeing slavery.
    Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2025
  • In Wide Sargasso Sea, Bertha is imagined as a girl originally named Antoinette, raised in Jamaica on a fallow sugar plantation after the abolition of British slavery.
    Ilana Masad, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2025
Definition of slavery
Noun
  • Interviewed two days later at the side of the Pacific Coast Highway, Edwards still bore the marks of the struggle.
    Will Carless, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2025
  • The average cost for a child’s diapers is about $1,200 a year, and half the families in the U.S. struggle to afford them, according to the National Diaper Bank Network.
    Michael Cuglietta, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2025
Definition of struggle
Noun
  • Image In some places, the border is marked with concrete barriers manned by Russians in fatigues.
    Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Excessive loss of fluids can lead to dehydration and contribute to symptoms like thirst, fatigue, and headache.
    Rosanna Sutherby, PharmD, Verywell Health, 3 Jan. 2025
Definition of fatigue
Noun
  • The work is difficult, with the players’ hair soaked with sweat and matted by their helmets.
    Tim Graham, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
  • All the blood, sweat, and tears of someone desperately holding on to their fading glory remains, however.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of sweat
Noun
  • For James, life was a daily grind of just keeping his head above water.
    Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Set on a stunning 200-acre estate, this wellness retreat resets habits and recalibrates from the daily grind.
    Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 1 Jan. 2025
Definition of grind
Noun
  • This, in some ways, underlined Watkins’ toils; scoring but more cautious, less sure of himself.
    Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
  • The on-pitch toil from Sean Dyche’s team merited such a response, but now the hard work starts in earnest for all, including TFG.
    Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of toil
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