toil
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7.8
- noun
- /tɔɪl/
- Jargon
:
trabajo rutinario
- In software development, the team often faces the daily toil of server maintenance and updates.
Examples
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Years and years of toil by developers and nothing to show after 4+ years.
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So he's saying, show your toil to other people.
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Notice here our E toil and here our R toil.
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Double, double, toil and trouble.
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The monotony of daily toil.
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As in Hubble, bubble, toil and trouble, type stuff?
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Is there more toil?
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I submit that the brainwashing is so extensive that the pleas of intelligent people will fall on the deaf ears of the mindless automatons that daily toil.
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The constant toil of managing the infrastructure can lead to burnout among IT professionals.
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Many engineers feel that the repetitive toil involved in system monitoring detracts from more innovative work.
Synonyms
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7.0
Boring, hard work that you do again and again
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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
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Etymology
Toil in tech keeps the same idea of hard, repeated work — like pulling the same heavy load again and again — but for routine tasks. So when engineers talk about toil they mean boring, repeat work that takes time but adds little value.