Synonyms:
labor, labour, toil
Meaning: productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
Meaning: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
Usage examples
When life is all sport, toil is the real play.
You are born to toil and drudge, my little friend.
Does the pain of toil repel more than its fruits attract?
You belong with the legions of toil, with all that is low, and vulgar, and unbeautiful.
Let us [-all-] work together, and harness this power, and make it ease the toil of men.
For the first time man had command of a steady supply of electricity without toil or effort.
Hitherto our toil had overcome all difficulties, now difficulties would spring up at every step.
Is it possible that a man is born to toil, accumulate money, build a house, beget children, and--die?
The toil for bread is incessant, there is not sufficient leisure to verify the sources of their religious beliefs.
All they did was to perform their dirty, arduous toil, eat poorly; they were miserably clad, addicted to drunkenness.