Hard labour
Work and hard labour are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Work" instead a noun phrase "Hard labour".
Work
Work noun - A literary, musical, or artistic production.
Hard labour and work are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hard labour" instead a noun "Work".
Both terms in one sentence
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In Endride, the human race (Endras) used the Zoozians for hard labour and shipped all the ones who were too weak to work to an island in the middle of the sea so they'd be out of sight.
Source: Fantastic Ghetto - In Endride, Louise's parents were forced to give up the work they were talented at to do hard labour because of their inter-species marriage.
Source: Maligned Mixed Marriage -
What makes this trope appear blatant and unable to suspend disbelief is that futuristic slavery rarely involves these environments, but rather dangerous hard labour such as mining, repetitive industrial work and space construction work.
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Work and Hard labour. (2017). Retrieved 2026, August 08, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/hard_labour/work
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