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menial work

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meanings of menialand work


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menial
adjective
uk /ˈmiː.ni.əl/ us /ˈmiː.ni.əl/
Menial work is boring, makes you feel tired, and is given a low ...
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work
noun
uk /wɜːk/ us /wɝːk/
an activity, such as a job, that a person uses physical or mental effort to do, usually ...
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Examples of menial work


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The reality is more likely to be menialwork for poor wages.
Twice the proportion of innovators do not believe that children save adults from menialwork, and a substantially smaller proportion believe that adult children help with the work.
They are hanging around the camps doing all kinds of menialwork.
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The order goes further than threatening the interests of those on the shop floor or those doing menialwork in offices throughout the land.
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I was told that these pensions were going to domestic servants performing manual and menialwork.
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He was allowed to do only menialwork and was usually dismissed whenever he was arrested because he was said to be truanting from work.
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They were compelled to do menialwork.
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It must be remembered that those who perform the administrative tasks and those who do the arduous and menialwork in local government all perform an important service.
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Often, they have to do menialwork.
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He would prepare the diets himself, treated the patients with medicines and also did menialwork like cleaning and washing of the patients.
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The contrast between menialwork during the day and fun during the night may have helped to develop his musical sensibility.
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He lives the remainder of his life - some forty years - doing menialwork, and making suitcases in a factory.
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Constantly in conflict with authority figures, he aspired to a career as a musician, but could not obtain even menialwork in the music industry.
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Times were tough, and from this point until 1973 he would have to do a great variety of menialwork to survive in addition to his profession.
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Jane found menialwork at a hotel to try to support herself.
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Tem resigned himself to a period of menialwork as a manure loader.
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