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travail

British pronunciation/tɹɐvˈe‍ɪl/
American pronunciation/tɹəˈveɪɫ/
Travail
[NOUN]
1

use of physical or mental energy; hard work

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2

concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child

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to travail
[VERB]
MAIN VERB
1

work hard

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Examples
1Travail, we started the apéro, the first round of drinks, about noon in the labor exchange, in the maison du peuple, the house of the people.
2God has given travail to the sons of man.
3Naturally women and their travails were forgotten.
4In the early industrial years of the 19th century, Charles Dickens via the travails of Oliver Twist, the Dorrit family, and others, highlighted the inequalities of life in London under an indifferent capitalist system.
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