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Noun: drudgery  drú-ju-ree
  1. Hard monotonous routine work
    "he spent his life in tiresome drudgery";
    - plodding, grind, donkeywork [informal]

Derived forms: drudgeries

Type of: labor [US], labour [Brit, Cdn], toil

Encyclopedia: Drudgery