heavy lifting

noun

: a burdensome or laborious duty

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Like Anne Hathaway, Lively styled her statement denim with a racerback tank and let her pants do the heavy lifting of the outfit. Sam Reed, Glamour, 10 July 2025 Citing numbers showing that AI is doing heavy lifting internally. Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 3 July 2025 More founders are skipping the process of building out departments and instead deploying agents to handle the heavy lifting. Net Kohen, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025 There's been a lot of heavy lifting with my iron skillet lately. Kelly Brant, Arkansas Online, 24 June 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 13 Jul. 2025.

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