heavy lifting

noun

: a burdensome or laborious duty

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Create subheadlines that make one clear promise Your subheadline does the heavy lifting after your headline hooks them. Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025 That second factor had to do with all the work, the heavy lifting, MLS has done to date, to build a spaceport from the ground up. Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 5 Sep. 2025 Strong router settings, proper encryption and a solid password do most of the heavy lifting. Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2025 Last year, 12 buses per tour shuttled the performers through their whirlwind schedule while 21 tractors did the literal heavy lifting of stage production. Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for heavy lifting

Word History

First Known Use

1980, in the meaning defined above

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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 10 Sep. 2025.

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