Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Chiefly Brit. characterized by toilsome effort; same as
laborious ; -- British spelling.
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- adjective Common misspelling of
laborious .
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Examples
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The router was immediately recognized so it was simply a case of entering the WPA encryption key (a labourious task since in my security conscious mode I had chosen a random 63 alphanumberic string … now, where did I keep that scrap of paper with it on ..) and it was off.
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The most labourious task of my day will be reheating the Thai leftovers for lunch.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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The router was immediately recognized so it was simply a case of entering the WPA encryption key (a labourious task since in my security conscious mode I had chosen a random 63 alphanumberic string … now, where did I keep that scrap of paper with it on ..) and it was off.
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The most labourious task of my day will be reheating the Thai leftovers for lunch.
Day-Without-Kids Day 2009
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However, Nathan Sutter, a geneticist specialising in dogs at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, says “transgenesis is labourious, expensive and slow”.
World’s First Transgenic Dog Is A Fluorescent Puppy | Impact Lab 2009
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This work, labourious as it may appear, has been to me a labour of love, an unfailing source of solace and satisfaction.
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I am from a jewish middle eastern family and the way we candy grapefruit peels makes them one of the most labourious recipes i have ever heard of!
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In fact, I think the process is too transparent and labourious, resulting in things not being purchased until decades after they are needed.
very expensive toys 2007
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There is some want of the higher Platonic art in the Eleatic Stranger eliciting his true character by a labourious process of enquiry, when he had already admitted that he knew quite well the difference between the Sophist and the Philosopher, and had often heard the question discussed; — such an anticipation would hardly have occurred in the earlier dialogues.
The Sophist 2006
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"The signing today of the pact constitutes a crowning of a labourious negotiation process that opens for people the prospects of democracy, good governance and economic development," DRC
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