hard physical work

  • 101labor camp — labor ,camp noun count a prison camp where prisoners are forced to do hard physical work …

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  • 102labour camp — labour camps N COUNT A labour camp is a kind of prison, where the prisoners are forced to do hard, physical work, usually outdoors. (in AM, use labor camp) …

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  • 103labourer — [[t]le͟ɪbərə(r)[/t]] labourers N COUNT: oft supp N A labourer is a person who does a job which involves a lot of hard physical work. He has worked as a labourer in factories and on building sites... Her husband had been a farm labourer. (in AM,… …

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  • 104navvy — [[t]næ̱vi[/t]] navvies N COUNT A navvy is a person who is employed to do hard physical work, for example building roads or canals. [BRIT, OLD FASHIONED] ...a blackened young navvy, swinging a pickaxe in the sweating tunnel …

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  • 105point of view — ♦♦♦ points of view 1) N COUNT: oft with poss You can refer to the opinions or attitudes that you have about something as your point of view. Thanks for your point of view, John... Try to look at this from my point of view. Syn: viewpoint 2) N… …

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  • 106labor camp — prison or penal colony where the prisoners have to do hard physical work; camp for migratory farm workers …

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  • 107elbow grease — noun informal hard physical work, especially vigorous polishing or cleaning …

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  • 108labour camp — BrE labor camp AmE noun (C) a prison camp where prisoners have to do hard physical work …

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  • 109penal — adjective 1 (only before noun) connected with the legal punishment of criminals, especially in prisons: penal reform | the penal system | penal colony/settlement (=a special area of land where prisoners are kept) | penal servitude law (=a period… …

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  • 110elbow grease — If something requires elbow grease, it involves a lot of hard physical work …

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