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hard-work

hard-work is the alternative form of hard work.

Meaning of hard work

Noun

hard work (uncountable)

  1. Something requiring much effort to accomplish, either physical, mental or emotional; labor; toil. (This entry is a translation hub.)
    • Compact strongly-built engines, with a capacity for hard work, they were, perhaps, not in the front rank of handsome locomotives, yet withal were pleasing to the eye.1958 July, J. P. Wilson, “Scottish Soliloquy”, in Railway Magazine, pages 493, 495

Questions about hard-work

What is hard-work the alternative form of?
Hard-work is the alternative form of hard work.

Words near hard-work in the dictionary

  1. hard-wire
  2. hard-wired
  3. hard-wires
  4. hard-wiring
  5. hard-won
  6. hard-work
  7. hard-working
  8. Harda
  9. Hardacre
  10. Hardacres
  11. Hardage

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