DONKEYWORK

Meaning of DONKEYWORK in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈdäŋ-kē-ˌwərk, ˈdəŋ-, ˈdȯŋ- ]

noun

Date: 1920

: monotonous and routine work : drudgery

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary. Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster. 2003

DONKEYWORK — noun Date: 1920 monotonous and routine work ; drudgery
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
DONKEYWORK — ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun : plodding and toilsome work : drudgery electronic brains are taking over the donkeywork of mathematics — Edwin …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
DONKEYWORK — n. tediously repetitive work; drudgery, hard work
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
DONKEYWORK — [don.key.work] n (1920): monotonous and routine work: drudgery
Merriam-Webster English vocab
DONKEYWORK — donkeywork BrE AmE ˈdɒŋk i wɜːk AmE \ ˈdɑːŋk i wɝːk ˈdʌŋk-, ˈdɔːŋk-
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
DONKEYWORK — don ‧ key ‧ work /ˈdɒŋkiwɜːk $ ˈdɑːŋkiwɜːrk/ BrE AmE noun [uncountable] British English the hard boring work that is …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
DONKEYWORK — n. Function: noun Synonyms: WORK 2, bullwork, drudge, drudgery, grind, labor, moil, plugging, slavery, toil
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
DONKEYWORK — noun Synonyms: work 2, bullwork, drudge, drudgery, grind, labor, moil, plugging, slavery, toil
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocabulary
DONKEYWORK — n. Pronunciation: ' dä ŋ -k ē - ˌ w ə rk, ' d ə ŋ -, ' do ̇ …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
DONKEY WORK — Informal. tedious, repetitious work; drudgery. Also, donkeywork /dong"kee werrk', dawng"-, dung"-/ . [ 1915-20 ]
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
DO — I. auxiliary verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a done deal informal (= something that has been completely agreed ) ▪ …
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WORK — Synonyms and related words : Grand Guignol, Nachtmusik, Passion play, Tom show, abatis, absolute music, accomplish, accomplished fact, accomplishment, acetify, …
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TREADMILL — Synonyms and related words : beat, beaten path, branks, broken record, bureaucracy, bureaucratism, chinoiserie, clockwork regularity, constancy, crank, cucking stool, …
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TRAVAIL — Synonyms and related words : accouchement, be confined, bear, bear a child, bear young, birth, birth throes, birthing, blessed event, …
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TOIL — Synonyms and related words : bait, be employed, birdlime, bola, burden, carry on business, cobweb, cramp, cripple, cumber, dig, dirty …
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TASK — Synonyms and related words : accuse, affair, agency, agentship, allege, arraign, article, assignment, attempt, authority, authorization, blame, book, bother, brevet, …
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SWEAT — Synonyms and related words : BO, abide, ado, agitation, agonize, aim, all-overs, anguish, anxiety, await, bake, be determined, be in …
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STROKE — Synonyms and related words : Jacksonian epilepsy, Rolandic epilepsy, abdominal epilepsy, abuse, access, accomplished fact, accomplishment, ache, achievement, aching, act, …
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SPADEWORK — Synonyms and related words : arrangement, basic training, briefing, clearing the decks, dirty work, donkeywork, drudgery, employment, equipment, fag, familiarization, …
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SLAVERY — Synonyms and related words : abjectness, absolutism, attendance, baseness, bond service, bondage, captivity, control, debt slavery, deprivation of freedom, dirty …
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RAT RACE — Synonyms and related words : Charybdis, absurdity, aimlessness, bootlessness, busyness, dirty work, dizzy round, donkeywork, drudgery, eddy, employment, emptiness, fag, …
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PLUGGING — Synonyms and related words : application, assiduity, assiduous, assiduousness, bulldog tenacity, concentration, constancy, constant, continuing, diligence, diligent, dogged, dogged perseverance, …
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MOIL — Synonyms and related words : agitation, be turbulent, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, brouhaha, bubble, bustle, churn, clamor, commotion, conturbation, dig, …
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MANUAL LABOR — Synonyms and related words : dirty work, donkeywork, drudgery, employment, fag, fatigue, grind, handiwork, handwork, industry, labor, lick, lick of …
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LICK — Synonyms and related words : addle, amaze, approach, assay, attempt, baffle, bamboozle, bang, bash, bat, bear the palm, beat, beat …
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LABOR — Synonyms and related words : accouchement, activities, activity, affair, affairs, aim, always trot out, amplify, assignment, bag, be busy, be …
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INDUSTRY — Synonyms and related words : Aktiengesellschaft, activity, aktiebolag, application, ardor, assiduity, assiduousness, balance of trade, big business, body corporate, bulldog …
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HANDIWORK — Synonyms and related words : accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, act, acta, action, adventure, architecture, artifact, assembly, blow, brainchild, building, casting, …
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GRIND — Synonyms and related words : ablate, abrade, abrase, aculeate, acuminate, afflict, agonize, ail, application, atomize, badger, barb, bark, beast of …
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FATIGUE — Synonyms and related words : abatement, abscess, acedia, adynamia, ague, anemia, ankylosis, annoy, anoxia, apathy, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atony, …
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FAG — Synonyms and related words : auntie, beast of burden, beat, bi-guy, bisexual, bugger, bull dyke, burden, burn out, busy, butch, …
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