heavy lifting

noun

: a burdensome or laborious duty

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Use unique passwords that are hard to guess and let a password manager do the heavy lifting by generating secure ones for you. Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, FOXNews.com, 16 Apr. 2025 The 58-year-old reality star is doing the heavy lifting — putting on her real estate pro hat and handling the listing herself. Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2025 The truth is that your enterprise likely has one or two key core values that set it apart, and supporting technology does the rest of the heavy lifting. Luca Maraschi, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025 As her second-in-command, Lea Salonga, a relatively new friend of Sondheim’s work, takes on much of the vocal heavy lifting. Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for heavy lifting

Word History

First Known Use

1980, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
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 22 Apr. 2025.

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