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drudg·ery (druj′ər ē)
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Preposition: of
- life: The continuing quest to escape the drudgery of every day life.
Converse of object
- escape: The continuing quest to escape the drudgery of every day life.
Adjective modifier
- daily: They're an ideal solution for offloading much of the daily drudgery of maintaining network security.
Modifies a noun
- work: Every People have a moral obligation to do their own drudgery work.
Noun used with modifier
- office: Rapidly tiring of office drudgery, he leaped at the chance to head the publishing firm which was founded in 1809.
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A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as forThy laws Makes it and th'action fine.
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