drudgery

Preposition: of

• life: The continuing quest to escape the drudgery of every day life.
• work: It explores something that we would all love to do - rebel against the drudgery of work.
• housework: It was also a chance for many a wife to spend time with her husband, well away from the drudgery of the housework.
• farming: He wants to see people released from the back-breaking drudgery of farming in a difficult environment.
• woman: Biogas installation in a rural household also reduces the drudgery of women and children associated with firewood collection.

Converse of object

• escape: The continuing quest to escape the drudgery of every day life.
• remove: In 1924, women set up the Electrical Association for Women to campaign to remove drudgery from housework.
• reduce: To take a simple example a the washing machine is probably the domestic appliance that has probably done most to reduce domestic drudgery.
• become: Your training must not become drudgery or a chore that has to be done.
• take: The Danish motorways have lots of lovely picnic areas, which take the drudgery out of driving.
• avoid: The XSLToolbox's goal is to help developers avoid the drudgery of writing the complicated XSLT transforms often needed to integrate XML applications.

Adjective modifier

• daily: They're an ideal solution for offloading much of the daily drudgery of maintaining network security.
• domestic: To take a simple example a the washing machine is probably the domestic appliance that has probably done most to reduce domestic drudgery.
• everyday: The everyday drudgery with which it presents its startling story is actually rather involving.
• mere: When work beats you down is when it becomes mere drudgery in the service of another.
• usual: I was aware of the usual drudgery of funding issues which so often affects the work that we do.
• mind-numbing: The mind-numbing drudgery of office work should not be overlooked, of course.

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.
• household: Many village girls are married as young as 12 or 13 and spend the rest of their lives in poverty-stricken household drudgery.