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Meaning toil meaning

What does toil mean?

toil

— verb (= drudge, dig) work hard She was digging away at her math homework Lexicographers drudge all day long — noun (= labor, labour) productive work (especially physical work done for wages) his labor did not require a great deal of skill

Synonyms toil synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as toil?

toil English » English

labor labour work work hard hard work trouble drudge travail effort exertion sweat moil hardship fatigue fag suffer struggle slave drudgery strive slave away pains manual labor endeavor take pains swot striving grub grind graft dig be industrious be diligent wretchedness work very hard unpleasantness try hard try trap toilsome toil at tew task take trouble suffering strain snare slog slavery plug

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compensatory time comp time

Topics toil topics

What do people use toil to talk about?

Work and occupation

Conjugation toil conjugation

How do you conjugate toil?

toil · verb

Examples toil examples

How do I use toil in a sentence?

Simple sentences

God created man to enjoy, not destroy, the fruits of the earth and of their own toil.
We offer everyone the opportunity to toil in the mines.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
I am exhausted with toil.

Movie subtitles

Now they were homeward bound and they were leaving the hardship and toil of Alaska to live in the land of milk and honey.
And but for ceremony, such a wretch, winding up days with toil and nights with sleep, had the forehand and vantage of a king.
You toil and moil.
This represents a lot of toil.
My native habitat is the theatre. In it, I toil not. Neither do I spin.
Toil and injustice.
Lately you think about toil and money only.
Come it's the nature of things that ants toil and grasshoppers sing and play, Mr. Scrooge.
If we've got to toil - then each with his own.
Men and women who know the meaning of toil.
And the dignity of toil.
You bleed with Millet over the nobility of toil.
What do you know about toil?
Bondage without rest, toil without reward.
It always remains the same toil.
But from now on I'll toil for myself, that's worth a lot.
Does God toil away for nothing?
In it, I toil not. Neither do I spin.
Toil, toil, Mr. Carpenter!
Why are our bodies soft and weak and smooth unapt to toil and trouble in the world but that our soft conditions and our hearts should well agree with our external parts?
All who shared the toil will share this gold!
Even toil, soil, I mean oil.
Bringing my strong, handsome sons here to better themselves, and not toil upon a thankless land like their father who died a thousand times before giving up.
Why do you go about me, as if you would drive me into a toil?
They neither toil nor spin, but even Solomon, in all his glory, was never arrayed like one of these.
He will work at home or toil on the fields.
Double, double toil and trouble.
The history of these figures becomes more interesting, perhaps. when I tell you that the originals were destroyed. twelve years ago, in London, in a fire. and were reproduced only after years of arduous toil.
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
The world is too full of holy men who expect to eat the food of those who toil.
But nevertheless, I was there for you and yours and the vexing problems that are so manifold in the heat and toil of the day.
Taking my strong, handsome sons here to better themselves,..and not toil a thankless land like their father..
You do as you want. but if you wanna eat, you must toil!
I promise you to toil to make our life less dull.
It was a desperate hardship, of back-breaking toil, and then a divine providence graced our genius and our dedication with the power of powers, and through it our every need instantly materialised.
In other words, they perform all the physical toil necessary to maintain Stratos.
The complete separation of toil and leisure has given Ardana this perfectly balanced social system, captain.
Double, double, toil and trouble.

News and current affairs

Thousands of NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) expose human rights violations and promote social, economic, and legal standards aimed at benefiting those who toil in factories in poor countries.
Points earned through hard toil could be spent on retiring earlier.
Peasants toil inefficiently on tiny plots of land, in a form of disguised unemployment similar to that seen in rural China.
Yet nothing could be further from the truth: knowledge workers continually toil outside the traditional office, checking their email, updating spreadsheets, writing reports, and engaging in collective brainstorming.
Thai children toil in unventilated factories, working with glass heated to 1,500 degrees Celsius.
But, as late as 1871, John Stuart Mill was writing that it was doubtful whether all of the industrial revolution's inventions had lightened the day's toil of a single worker.

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