I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
work/labour/toil in obscurity (= work without being well-known )
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After years of working in obscurity, his paintings are now hanging in museums.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
worker
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The workers and peasants toil and sweat to service debts owed to the international bankers and multilateral agencies.
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Today less than thirty thousand workers toil in those same coal mines.
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Elsewhere, factory workers toiled twelve hours a day, six days a week, and their hollow-eyed children worked with them.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Men. women and children spent long hours toiling in the fields, whatever the weather conditions.
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My immigrant parents toiled night and day to make a living.
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Roger and his wife toiled round the clock for seven years to make a success of their business.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For a year, birthday preparation committees throughout the nation have toiled for this moment.
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For eight years, he toiled in the House minority party.
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The workers and peasants toil and sweat to service debts owed to the international bankers and multilateral agencies.
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This was a process in which I had never engaged back in the bad old days when I toiled on a typewriter.
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Today less than thirty thousand workers toil in those same coal mines.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Here began their arduous toil to force a living from the land.
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man's desire for freedom from physical toil
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After four carefree years, one enters the Company, where the daily round of obedient toil begins again.
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From now on Adam's work is to be sweat and toil .
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Man is made to relieve the gods of the toil of keeping the earth in order.
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Mortal pain and toil have yielded before the promise of redemption in Revelations.
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Such toil could easily be made unnecessary if a little social effort and investment could be applied.
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There was no time for the arduous toil required to master a foreign language.
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These, although mortal, lived like gods without sorrow of heart, far from toil and pain.
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Working copy: not likely to withstand further toil .