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drudgery Definition

drudg·ery (drujər ē)

noun pl. -·er·ies

work that is hard, menial, or tiresome

Etymology: see drudge & -ery

drudgery Usage Examples

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.
drudgery Quotes

A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as forThy laws Makes it and th'action fine.

—Herbert, George

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