Definitions for drudgery
ˈdrʌdʒ ə ridrud·ge·ry

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. drudgery, plodding, grind, donkeyworknoun

   hard monotonous routine work

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. drudgerynoun

   tedious, menial and exhausting work

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Drudgerynoun

   Mean labour; ignoble toil; dishonourable work; servile occupation.

   Etymology: from drudge.

   My old dame will be undone for one to do her husbandry, and her drudgery. William Shakespeare, Henry IV. p. ii.

   Were there not instruments for drudgery as well as offices of drudgery? Were there not people to receive orders as well as others to give and authorize them? Roger L'Estrange.

   You do not know the heavy grievances,
   The toils, the labours, weary drudgeries,
   Which they impose. Thomas Southerne, Oroonoko.

   To thee that drudgery of pow’r I give;
   Cares be thy lot: reign thou, and let me live. John Dryden, Auren.

   Paradise was a place of bliss, as well as immortality, without drudgery, and without sorrow. John Locke.

   Even drudgery himself,
   As at the car he sweats, or dusty hews
   The palace-stone, looks gay. James Thomson, Summer, l. 1445.

   It is now handled by every dirty wench, and condemned to do her drudgery. Jonathan Swift, Meditations on a Broomstick.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. drudgery

   A laborer (or labourer) is a person who works in manual labor types in the construction industry workforce. Laborers are in a working class of wage-earners in which their only possession of significant material value is their labor. Industries employing laborers include building things such as roads, buildings, bridges, tunnels, and railway tracks. Laborers work with blasting tools, hand tools, power tools, air tools, and small heavy equipment, and act as assistants to other trades as well such as operators or cement masons. The 1st century BC engineer Vitruvius writes that a good crew of laborers is just as valuable as any other aspect of construction. Other than the addition of pneumatics, laborer practices have changed little. With the introduction of field technologies, the laborers have been quick to adapt to the use of this technology as being laborers' work.

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1. drudgery

   Drudgery refers to hard, tedious, dull, tiresome, or monotonous work. It is often associated with work that doesn't require much skill, is repetitive, and doesn't offer personal satisfaction or intellectual stimulation.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Drudgerynoun

   the act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of drudgery in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of drudgery in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of drudgery in a Sentence

1. Alex Kozlov:

   There’s a lot of talk about technology taking over the drudgery work and allowing people to focus on more creative, more value-added work, but there’s also the potential to replace a lot of human functions, what’s happening isn’t that you eliminate a 50-person department.

2. Thomas Jefferson:

   No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it...To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

3. Longfellow:

   The every-day cares and duties which men call drudgery are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of Time, giving its pendulum a true vibration, and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon the wheels, the pendulum no longer sways, the hands no longer move, the clock stands still.

4. Willie Stone:

   Vision without a task is only a dream. A task without a vision is but drudgery. But vision with a task is a dream fulfilled.

5. Vishal Sikka:

   The acquisition of Panaya is a key step in renewing and differentiating our service lines, this will help amplify the potential of our people, freeing us from the drudgery of many repetitive tasks, so we may focus more on the important, strategic challenges faced by our clients.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=drudgery
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Drudgery
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=drudgery
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drudgery
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drudgery