heavy lifting

noun

: a burdensome or laborious duty

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Christopher’s philosophy is simple — ride out the storms, ignore the noise, and let time (and compounding) do the heavy lifting. Big Think, 10 Apr. 2025 Below, seven options that do all the heavy lifting for your entertainment system. Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 8 Apr. 2025 Laurie, Jaclyn, and Kate are the season’s standout characters, but there’s palpable sweatiness in the challenge of connecting them to the red-herring robbery plotline while also doing the heavy lifting of separately shaping each of them. Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2025 These tools allow developers to focus on more innovative tasks, while AI handles the heavy lifting of routine updates and transitions. Tony Bradley, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for heavy lifting

Word History

First Known Use

1980, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of heavy lifting was in 1980

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“Heavy lifting.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heavy%20lifting. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.

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