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English Dictionary: drudgery by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
drudgery
n
  1. hard monotonous routine work [syn: drudgery, plodding, grind, donkeywork]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Drudgery \Drudg"er*y\, n.
      The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor;
      ignoble or slavish toil.
  
               The drudgery of penning definitions.      --Macaulay.
  
               Paradise was a place of bliss . . . without drudgery
               and with out sorrow.                              --Locke.
  
      Syn: See {Toll}.
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