ARDUOUS WORK collocation | meaning and examples of use (original) (raw)
collocation in English
meanings of arduous and work
arduous
adjective
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/ˈɑː.dʒu.əs/us
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/ˈɑːr.dʒu.əs/
difficult, needing a lot of effort ...
work
noun
uk
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/wɜːk/us
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/wɝːk/
an activity, such as a job, that a person uses physical or mental effort to do, usually ...
Examples of arduous work
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Even feeling and sight - faculties which we might think of as spontaneous, natural, unmediated - are the fruits of long and arduous work.
The post-war period will see some arduous work begin, first of all of course in the form of humanitarian aid.
These are the people who have spent years of training, years of arduous work acquiring their undoubted expertise.
He had disregarded the convenience of a very great number of people, tired after long and arduous work in the war.
Nor do we forget the arduous work of the prison service.
However, after long years of arduous work, a negotiating machine was built up.
That clearly means very hard and arduous work on the part of each of them.
We recognise the splendid, loving and often arduous work of carers.
Will these allowances be increased at the earliest opportunity, in view of the arduous work, especially during the winter months?
I am waiting for the staff to write to me asking for extra pay for their arduous work!
I hope that a great deal of arduous work will be put into examining how that second criterion can be effectively applied.
It is arduous work, and calls for great patience among those concerned.
Are the men engaged upon this very arduous work receiving extra pay?
Are the men who are working on this very dangerous and arduous work getting any extra pay?
This is heavy and arduous work which calls for bravery and courage on the part of the men who are employed in it.
These men are no longer fit for arduous work.
In this they could show that initiative and that imagination, which they have always expected people to show who are engaged in more arduous work.
They are doing arduous work over long hours every day in the week throughout the year.
I do not know people who do more arduous work than, say, regional councillors.
We provided these daring officers and men engaged upon this arduous work with vehicles of the highest quality.
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