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Princeton's WordNet

  1. heavy liftingnoun

    difficult work

    "the boss hoped the plan would succeed but he wasn't willing to do the heavy lifting"

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  1. heavy liftingnoun

    The most demanding part of an endeavour; work requiring the most effort, resources, or consideration.

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  1. heavy lifting

    Tug of War is the debut studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen, who came in third on the fifth season of Canadian Idol. The album is produced by Canadian record producer and songwriter Ryan Stewart. Initially, the album was limitedly released in Canada on the independent MapleMusic Recordings label via Fontana North on September 30, 2008. However, it was subsequently given a mainstream release by Canadian label 604 Records, following Jepsen's signing to the label in 2011, including a digital release on the iTunes Store of the United States on June 14. In 2013, the album was released on CD in the United States, through distribution from Alliance Entertainment. In July 2015, the album was released on vinyl in Europe.

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  1. heavy lifting

    Heavy lifting refers to the act of moving, lifting or carrying heavy objects or weights, often requiring significant physical effort and strength. In a metaphorical sense, it can also refer to the most challenging or difficult part of a task or responsibility.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of heavy lifting in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of heavy lifting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of heavy lifting in a Sentence

  1. Pierre Trudeau:

    For the past 10 years Stephen Harper has ignored the people who do most of the heavy lifting in our economy, the people who work longer and longer hours for an ever shrinking piece of the pies.

  2. Jeff Bezos:

    An even more stark example is Facebook. Heres a guy who literally, in his dorm room, started a company Mark Zuckerberg started a company in his dorm room, which is now worth half a trillion dollars less than two decades ago, how do you get that kind of entrepreneurial [advancement] in space? You need to lower the price of admission right now to do anything interesting in space because it requires so much heavy lifting and so much infrastructure development.

  3. Delores Goodwin Kelley:

    If you really want to get the job done, you have to pick the best person, when one person is clearly more knowledgeable, works better with others, is willing to do the heavy lifting, now is not the time to make an historic statement.

  4. Nick Bullen:

    He’s 73 and has been preparing for a lifetime, to finally take on some of that mantle has been great for Charles. He’s been enjoying it. And he loves doing some of the heavy lifting for his mother. He certainly wants to make it as easy as possible for his mother, as any child would. So there are many feelings surrounding this. But he’s certainly not in a hurry to become king.

  5. Tom Carper:

    I think most of the heavy lifting's been done, I think we have a good compromise, and my hope and expectation is we'll vote on it as part of a bigger package, and that it will be accepted.


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