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slave away en · VERB

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To work very hard.
   • Rochelle is a perfectionistic, timid, dutiful girl, and she has been slaving away for hours on her math. 1999, Elizabeth Berger, Raising Kids with Character: Developing Trust and Personal Integrity in Children, Rowman & Littlefield, published 2004, →ISBN, page 107:
   • I slaved away in my tiny kitchen, gradually developing my own techniques in my quest for perfect results. 2010, Rachel Saunders, The Blue Chair Jam Cookbook, Andrews McMeel, published 2010, →ISBN:
   • Thomas Anderson works at what is presumably a moderately well paying middle-class professional job, but his life as a computer programmer for a large corporation, slaving away in a tiny cubicle in a high-rise office building, seems seems mind-numbingly boring and routine. 2006, M. Keith Booker, Alternate Americas: Science Fiction Film and American Culture, Praegar, published 2006, →ISBN, page 255:

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Translations (8)

fi raataa (to work hard) · nl sloven (to work hard) · de schuften (to work hard) · pl harować (to work hard) · fr trimer (to work hard) · es esclavizarse (to work hard) · de sich abrackern (to work hard) · it sgobbare (to work hard)