TOIL


Meaning of TOIL in English

I. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

work/labour/toil in obscurity (= work without being well-known )

After years of working in obscurity, his paintings are now hanging in museums.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

worker

The workers and peasants toil and sweat to service debts owed to the international bankers and multilateral agencies.

Today less than thirty thousand workers toil in those same coal mines.

Elsewhere, factory workers toiled twelve hours a day, six days a week, and their hollow-eyed children worked with them.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Men. women and children spent long hours toiling in the fields, whatever the weather conditions.

My immigrant parents toiled night and day to make a living.

Roger and his wife toiled round the clock for seven years to make a success of their business.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

For a year, birthday preparation committees throughout the nation have toiled for this moment.

For eight years, he toiled in the House minority party.

The workers and peasants toil and sweat to service debts owed to the international bankers and multilateral agencies.

This was a process in which I had never engaged back in the bad old days when I toiled on a typewriter.

Today less than thirty thousand workers toil in those same coal mines.

II. noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Here began their arduous toil to force a living from the land.

man's desire for freedom from physical toil

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

After four carefree years, one enters the Company, where the daily round of obedient toil begins again.

From now on Adam's work is to be sweat and toil .

Man is made to relieve the gods of the toil of keeping the earth in order.

Mortal pain and toil have yielded before the promise of redemption in Revelations.

Such toil could easily be made unnecessary if a little social effort and investment could be applied.

There was no time for the arduous toil required to master a foreign language.

These, although mortal, lived like gods without sorrow of heart, far from toil and pain.

Working copy: not likely to withstand further toil .

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