menial
હલકું
definition
noun
Despite tall claims that a determined attempt to eradicate child labour has been initiated, hundreds and thousands of children are still languishing as menials in households, if not in hazardous industries.
a person with a menial job.
adjective
menial factory jobs
(of work) not requiring much skill and lacking prestige.
translation of 'menial'
ઘરનો ચાકર,
હલકું
example
His daily duties entailed preparing vegetables, doing the dishes and the other 'menial' tasks that no one else wanted.
As a 'menial' , I was never told who these men were, never introduced to them, but I assumed they were the backers who had money at risk.
Food and shelter are the greatest problems, and many children have lost families or work at 'menial' tasks to provide meager, subsistence-level support.
When they hit the fleet, they face a year of 'menial' tasks - scrubbing toilets, burning trash, picking up litter.
He busied himself, sweeping the visitor's quarters, washing their clothes and helping with the most 'menial' work in fields.
The nearest university is a six to eight hours drive, so many of the children go on to work in a nearby factory doing 'menial' labour.
Transcribing the information was 'menial' work that did not require her level of expertise to do - it was likely this guy just wanted her to do the work for him, so he would not have to.
Most of them have done 'menial' work throughout their student life to help see them through university.
That means his mission commander can ask him to clean the air filters, unload some equipment, or take care of other 'menial' tasks.
My brain must be shrinking the longer I spend here, because I seem to derive great happiness and satisfaction from 'menial' tasks.
They will be allowed to perform 'menial' tasks that require no skill whatsoever.
The lack of confidence and education forced some to work on 'menial' tasks.
In the eleventh century the Norse kings probably had an immediate retinue of about ninety men, excluding 'menial' servants and hangers on.
Try to set yourself a 'menial' task - eg, setting the table, cleaning the bath, making the tea - whilst you sing.
While she was gone a 'menial' came by to light the ceiling lamps, a touch with a burning taper on the end of a pole and the gas wicks glowed to life.
He finds he is not mean-spirited enough to be a criminal, not tough enough to be a police officer, and too smart to subject himself to 'menial' work.
Approach everything menial as something special and it need never be 'menial' again.
Owen lowered his gaze as they passed the two guards posted nearby and adopted the attitude of a 'menial' servant busy running an errand.
As one of the more respected maids, she did not have to bother with the 'menial' tasks such as preparing the fires, she was merely there to serve the food, and assist in the general goings on of castle life.
Life for most was dull and without pleasantries, simply killing time with 'menial' tasks.
Nor were we happy with how some of the churches educated, when they seemed to train the young primarily for 'menial' pursuits such as domestics.
The worst definition for a woman's occupation was the one she was likeliest to have: a 'menial' servant.
If Saturn lacks dignity it can indicate the lower regions of society: foolish people, down and outs, scavengers, beggars and employees who act as servants or 'menial' staff to others.
Regardless of whether she enjoyed the 'menial' work of typing or selling or waitressing or clerking, she at least had freedom of movement to a degree.
By contrast, women from high-class families had maids to take care of most household chores and other 'menial' work and thus worked far less than men or women in lower socioeconomic groups.
Cheng said they would often look for 'menial' work in restaurants or labouring work around the city.
This crisis causes farmers to abandon their land and migrate toward urban areas to find 'menial' work, or to illegally immigrate to more financially stable countries.
Many refugees who were professionals in their countries now find themselves performing 'menial' tasks or manual labor.
Upon arrival in the Grasse Mount building on Summit Street, I must enter a 'menially' labeled door, the Phone-a-thon Entrance.
Though the play dealt with serious issues like the domestic help being regarded as ‘untouchables’ and treated as 'menials' , it elicited plenty of laughter from the crowd.
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