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The hard labor of making Wabanaki baskets Wabanaki basket-making isn’t for wimps.
—Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2024
Teens sent to Wyoming ranches for therapy say they were subjected to hard labor and humiliation.
—Tyler Kingkade, NBC News, 9 Oct. 2024
Courts-martial for cowardice were common and often ended in humiliation, imprisonment at hard labor, and even physical branding or execution.
—Chris Walsh, Foreign Affairs, 17 June 2015
He was sentenced to 14 years at a hard labor camp in Russia.
—Darya Tarasova, CNN, 15 Aug. 2024
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First Known Use
1651, in the meaning defined above
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“Hard labor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard%20labor. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
Legal Definition
hard labor
noun
: compulsory labor imposed upon prisoners as part of a sentence or as prison discipline
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