toiling

to move in a particular direction, slowly and with great effort: I was toiling up the hill with four heavy bags when he took pity on me. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Moving unsteadily or with difficulty. blunder.

to engage in hard and continuous work; labor arduously: to toil in the fields.

Meaning of toiling in English to work hard: Farm workers have been toiling in the 100-degree heat over the past week. After toiling away at work all week, it's good to relax.

Examples from Collins dictionaries Workers toiled long hours. She has toiled away at the violin for years. Nora toils away serving burgers at the local cafe. Arnold had his head down, gasping as he toiled up the hill.

Time off in lieu, or TOIL, is when an employee works pre-approved overtime and receives compensatory time off for the same amount. For example, if an individual works an extra two hours one day with their manager's approval, they can then “bank” those two hours to take off at a later date.

1[intransitive] to work very hard and/or for a long time, usually doing hard physical work synonym slave away Hundreds of men toiled for years at building the pyramid. She toils tirelessly for various charities.

Although toil means "work" (in both its noun and verb forms), it usually has the added meaning of hard work, especially physical labor. If you'd lived during the Great Depression, you might have toiled on roadwork and conservation projects.

Some common synonyms of toil are drudgery, grind, labor, travail, and work. While all these words mean "activity involving effort or exertion," toil implies prolonged and fatiguing labor.

As work arrangements become more flexible, it's become equally important to offer flexible time-off options to your employees as well. This is where time off in lieu (TOIL) comes into play. TOIL is a tool employers can use to balance employees' needs with the needs of the business at no extra cost.

As an alternative to paying overtime, TOIL helps companies avoid a cost they may be unable to meet. Failure to recognise overtime risks employee anger and workplace issues, so giving some time in lieu is a good alternative.

English pronunciation of toil

1. /t/ as in. town.
2. /ɔɪ/ as in. boy.
3. /l/ as in. look.

If teams spend the majority of their time on these types of tasks, they have less time for high-value work. As a consequence, operational costs rise and the focus becomes more reactive than proactive. This prohibits innovation. The benefit of reducing toil is that the time freed up can be saved and reinvested.