| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. Energetic physical action: activity, exercise. See ACTION. 2. The use of energy to do something: effort, endeavor, pain (used in plural), strain1, striving, struggle, trouble, while. Informal : elbow grease. See WORK. 3. The act of putting into play: application, employment, exercise, implementation, operation, play, usage, use, utilization. See USED.
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