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. 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.

2. Pierre Trudeau:

   His likeability ratings are off the charts and he is getting good reviews from foreign leaders, but it will only take him so far unless Canada is also seen to be willing to do some of the heavy lifting.

3. Tom Carper:

   I think most of the heavy lifting's been done, I think we have a good compromise, and my hope and expectation is we'll vote on it as part of a bigger package, and that it will be accepted.

4. 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.

5. Gold Coast mayor Tom Tate:

   I said that we won't be adding any dollars towards the funding part because we did a lot of our heavy lifting during the Commonwealth Games as far as our funding and budget's concerned, it's time that Gold Coast takes a break and lets Brisbane write the checks.