heavy manual work imposed as a punishment, esp. during a prison sentence.
| 单词 | θ173223 |
| 释义 | society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [noun] > with hard labour > hard labour (3) hard labour1651 heavy manual work imposed as a punishment, esp. during a prison sentence. servitude1659 Compulsory labour, generally combined with imprisonment or confinement, as a punishment for criminals. In later use especially in penal servitude, n.… hard1887 slang. (a) Short for hard labour n. at compounds 4 (now historical). (b) U.S. Short for hard time n. at compounds 4. |
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