donkeywork
- noun
- UK
:
trabajo pesado
- She was left to do all the donkeywork while her colleagues got the credit.
Examples
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The volunteers handled the donkeywork of setting up chairs and cleaning up afterward.
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The project involves a lot of donkeywork.
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Most interns are given the donkeywork in their first few months at a company.
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I have to do some donkeywork this weekend.
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Most interns are given the donkeywork in their first few months at a company.
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She was left to do all the donkeywork while her colleagues got the credit.
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The volunteers handled the donkeywork of setting up chairs and cleaning up afterward.
Synonyms
355
1.6
A lot of steady effort to achieve something difficult
65
4.6
Unpleasant or shameful tasks that other people avoid
32
5.6
Work that is tiring and boring and happens every day
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7.0
Boring, hard work that you do again and again
10
5.3
Boring, simple jobs that are necessary and take a lot of time
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8.1
Simple unpleasant tasks that no one wants to do
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9.9
Unpleasant small jobs that no one wants to do
Hard physical work that makes you very tired
A difficult or boring task someone must do
How Monotonous
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Donkeywork comes from the animal donkey, long used to carry heavy, boring loads while people do the nicer tasks. That's why donkeywork means 'hard, monotonous, routine work' that is necessary but not rewarding.