grind
/graɪnd/ noun [S] informalDefinition
› a difficult or boring activity that needs a lot of effort: He recalls the grind of working his day job and then in a bar at night.
the daily grind › employment, especially when this consists of boring activities: The recession has driven many would-be-retirees back to the daily grind.
(Definition of grind noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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