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DONKEYWORK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does donkeywork mean?
• DONKEYWORK (noun)
The noun DONKEYWORK has 1 sense:
1. hard monotonous routine work
Familiarity information: DONKEYWORK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hard monotonous routine work
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
donkeywork; drudgery; grind; plodding
Hypernyms ("donkeywork" is a kind of...):
labor; labour; toil (productive work (especially physical work done for wages))
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