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treadmill: a job involving drudgery and confinement; a mill that is powered by men or animals walking on a circular belt or climbing steps; an exercise device consisting of an endless belt on which a person can walk or jog without changing place

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squirrel cage collapse: cage with a cylindrical framework that rotates as a small animal runs inside it

beaten path collapse

sameness collapse: the quality of being alike; "sameness of purpose kept them together"

monotony collapse: constancy of tone or pitch or inflection; the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety; "he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work"; "he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners"; "he hated the sameness of the food the college served"

uneventful collapse: marked by no noteworthy or significant events; "an uneventful life"; "the voyage was pleasant and uneventful"; "recovery was uneventful"

rote collapse: memorization by repetition

manual labor collapse: labor done with the hands

rotator collapse

drudgery collapse: hard monotonous routine work

humdrum collapse: tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; "a humdrum existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so monotonous as the sea"

gyroscope collapse: rotating mechanism in the form of a universally mounted spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any direction

dirty work collapse

bureaucracy collapse: any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape; a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials; nonelective government officials

spadework collapse: dull or routine preliminary work preparing for an undertaking

red tape collapse

singsong collapse: a regular and monotonous rising and falling intonation; speak, chant, or declaim in a singsong; move as if accompanied by a singsong; "The porters singsonged the travellers' luggage up the mountain"

long winded collapse

slavery collapse: the practice of owning slaves; work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay

rat race collapse: an exhausting routine that leaves no time for relaxation

prolix collapse: tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length; "editing a prolix manuscript"; "a prolix lecturer telling you more than you want to know"

travail collapse

invariable collapse: not liable to or capable of change; "an invariable temperature"; "an invariable rule"; "his invariable courtesy"

everlasting collapse: any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color

monotonous collapse

moil collapse: moisten or soil; "Her tears moiled the letter"

dryasdust collapse

dingdong collapse: heartily or earnestly; "They fell to work dingdong"

regularity collapse: the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate; "he was famous for the regularity of his habits"; a property of polygons: the property of having equal sides and equal angles

unvarying collapse

jog trot collapse: an easy gait of a horse; midway between a walk and a trot

toil collapse

rut collapse: a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape; "they fell into a conversational rut"; a groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels); be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals

stocks collapse: a former instrument of punishment consisting of a heavy timber frame with holes in which the feet (and sometimes the hands) of an offender could be locked; a frame for constraining an animal while it is receiving veterinary attention or while being shod; a frame that supports a boat while it is under construction

tedious collapse

employment collapse: the occupation for which you are paid; "he is looking for employment"; "a lot of people are out of work"; the act of giving someone a job; the state of being employed or having a job; "they are looking for employment"; "he was in the employ of the city"

handiwork collapse

fag collapse: act as a servant for older boys, in British public schools

monologue collapse: a (usually long) dramatic speech by a single actor; a long utterance by one person (especially one that prevents others from participating in the conversation)

monotone collapse: an unchanging intonation; a single tone repeated with different words or different rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts)

pillory collapse: a wooden instrument of punishment on a post with holes for the wrists and neck; offenders were locked in and so exposed to public scorn; punish by putting in a pillory; expose to ridicule or public scorn

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