Synonyms for heavy lifting
heavy lift·ing

Princeton's WordNet

1. heavy liftingnoun

   difficult work

   "the boss hoped the plan would succeed but he wasn't willing to do the heavy lifting"

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1. • Work

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1. Simon Coveney:

   Ireland and Britain need to work together, and the British and Irish governments will work closely together to try and do some of the heavy lifting with the political parties that can change this within weeks not months.

2. Pierre Trudeau:

   For the past 10 years Stephen Harper has ignored the people who do most of the heavy lifting in our economy, the people who work longer and longer hours for an ever shrinking piece of the pies.

3. David Spitz:

   Dave Franco and Emma Roberts felt the best approach was to let the movie do the heavy lifting and let word of mouth carry it, if you read all the comments whether it's on Instagram or Facebook or Twitter, the response is amazing. The audience loves the film.

4. Delores Goodwin Kelley:

   If you really want to get the job done, you have to pick the best person, when one person is clearly more knowledgeable, works better with others, is willing to do the heavy lifting, now is not the time to make an historic statement.

5. Jeff Bezos:

   An even more stark example is Facebook. Heres a guy who literally, in his dorm room, started a company Mark Zuckerberg started a company in his dorm room, which is now worth half a trillion dollars less than two decades ago, how do you get that kind of entrepreneurial [advancement] in space? You need to lower the price of admission right now to do anything interesting in space because it requires so much heavy lifting and so much infrastructure development.