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# drudgery

«drudgery» in Mova's school dictionary: **hard, dull work that goes on and on, work that nobody enjoys** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (no plural)

### meaning for a pupil

Drudgery is hard, dull work that goes on and on, work that nobody enjoys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drudgery/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a poor servant or a child is made to do heavy, tiring jobs for little or no thanks

### examples

- Washing up every night is drudgery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drudgery/#x1)
- The poor boy was kept busy with endless drudgery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drudgery/#x2)
- Cleaning all the floors by hand is hard drudgery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drudgery/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «drudgery» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drudgery/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.