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Definition of Heavy lifting
1. Noun. Difficult work. "The boss hoped the plan would succeed but he wasn't willing to do the heavy lifting"
Definition of Heavy lifting
1. Noun. (idiomatic) The most demanding part of an endeavour; work requiring the most effort, resources, or consideration. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heavy Lifting
Literary usage of Heavy lifting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. General Foundry Practice by Andrew McWilliam, Percy Longmuir (1907)
"—heavy lifting Beam. shown is preferably formed of mild steel or wrought-iron.
Cast-iron and wooden beams arc sometimes used, but are not very reliable. ..."
2. General Foundry Practice by Andrew McWilliam, Percy Longmuir (1907)
"—heavy lifting Beam. shown is preferably formed of mild steel or wrought-iron.
Cast-iron and wooden beams are sometimes used, but are not very reliable. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Domestic Medicine: Giving a Description of Diseases by John Henry Clarke (1901)
"There is no need for her to be idle and consider herself an invalid, but excesses
of all kinds she must avoid—fatiguing and violent exercise, heavy lifting, ..."
4. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1912)
"... car who also did heavy lifting. Two bookkeepers who stand on their feet all
day, and one a brewery man who prided himself on lifting a barrel higher on ..."
5. How Third World Rural Households Adapt to Dietary Energy Stress: The by Philip Payne, Michael Lipton (1994)
"However, small persons are at a disadvantage in work requiring mainly heavy
lifting, and so forth, where their low total muscle mass and low total VO2max ..."
6. The Law of Workmen's Compensation, Rules of Procedure, Tables, Forms by William Richard Schneider (1922)
"... and another when he fell dead, while doing some heavy lifting. The trial judge
held that the strain from heavy lifting 35. Saddington v. ..."
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