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laboring oars

laboring oars is the plural of laboring oar.

Meaning of laboring oar

Noun

laboring oar (plural laboring oars)

  1. An oar that is worked with great effort.
  2. (US, broadly, figuratively) The part of a task that requires the greatest effort to achieve.
    • And so too, when new issues demanding new policy calls come up within that scheme, Congress presumably wants the same agency, rather than any court, to take the laboring oar.2019, Kisor v. Wilkie (U.S. Supreme Court No. 18-15), Justice Kagan

Questions about laboring oars

What is laboring oars the plural of?
Laboring oars is the plural of laboring oar.

Words near laboring oars in the dictionary

  1. laborforce
  2. laborforces
  3. Laborie
  4. laboring
  5. laboring oar
  6. laboring oars
  7. laboring the point
  8. laboringly
  9. laborings
  10. laboriosity
  11. laborious

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