What's the difference between drudger and drudgery?
Drudger
Definition:
(n.) One who drudges; a drudge.
(n.) A dredging box.
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Drudgery
Definition:
(n.) The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil.
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(1) He loved the excitement and the glitter of his post, but could never really accept the hours of drudgery and tedium that the job of Liberal leader involved.
(2) The circumstances, a malaise of drudgery and petty distraction in the society around him, are described, and his general wish "to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived".
(3) A data acquisition system that automatically discards corrupted or undesirable signals would save untold hours of drudgery for researchers.
(4) In the Pentagon worldview, however, there is simply no drug use, nor any factory-style drudgery, and no one in the US Air Force is, was or ever shall be light enough in the loafers to invoke The Wizard Of Oz poetically.
(5) It would be unfortunate if urodynamicists were required to learn of the phenomena and their implications by the drudgery of repeated measurements rather than taking guidance from previous work.
(6) But in 1963, when Gloria Steinem went undercover in the New York club for Show magazine, she described a life of swollen feet, drudgery, "demerits" for laddered tights or scruffy tails, and a constant low-level thrum of sexual harassment.
(7) Hundreds of passionate feminists, female and male, are walking to rally against the daily violence, discrimination and drudgery women across the world continue to face.
(8) Instead of dwelling on the drudgery, I concentrated on that day’s assignment.
(9) Fluoxetine is a significant step in that direction, he argued, and we would inevitably possess drugs that "reduce the common experiences of drudgery such as going to work on Monday mornings for those who, at present, are not seen as suffering from a mood disorder, without obvious side effects or 'impairment' in judgment."
(10) At their best, soaps find drama in the everyday and the mark of Wainwright’s work is that, however dramatic, there is a respect for the drudgery and humdrum nature of much of life.
(11) A collision of technologies, indoor plumbing, electricity and the affordable automatic washing machine have all but put paid to large laundries and the drudgery of hand-washing,” says the report.
(12) It is intuitively obvious that the longer you are expected to drudge, the less productive your drudgery is likely to be.
(13) The more hours of drudgery you endure the more of a mother you are and, therefore, the more important your job is.
(14) Leaving for another day the question of admiration, since only a barrister can really know how much pain is incurred when legal drudgery is sacrificed for the cut and thrust of baby pilates, it was Mr Clegg's shared belief, with Laura Perrins, that "choice" is involved in the average working parents' lives that was most unworthy.
(15) If he became an MP and Cameron won a second term, Johnson would have to accept some form of ministerial drudgery which might take the shine of his star quality.
(16) Otherwise it is just thankless drudgery – no less demoralising and demotivating than long-term unemployment.
(17) It is argued that the HGP is a new form of coordinated, interdisciplinary science; that its primary objective must be seen as the creation of a tool for biomedical research--a source book that will be the basis of study of variation and function for a long time; that the impact on scientist training will be salutary by relieving graduate students of useless drudgery and by training scientists competent in both molecular genetics and computational science; and that the funding of the HGP will have an insignificant negative effect on science funding generally, and indeed may have a beneficial effect through economy of scale and a focusing of attention on the excitement of biology and medical science.
(18) They say that the drudgery of life beats the anonymity of death.
(19) SCORE, a program for computer-assisted scoring of Southern blots of clone DNA, retains the use of expert human judgment while taking over much of the drudgery of the scoring task.
(20) I don't seek inspiration, and my work is also not a horrible drudgery.