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menial
2 ENTRIES FOUND:
Learner's definition of MENIAL
[more menial; most menial]
— used to describe boring or unpleasant work that does not require special skill and usually does not pay much money不需要技巧的；枯燥的；报酬低的
- a menial job枯燥的工作
- She thought household chores were menial and unimportant.她认为家务活既枯燥又不重要。
- performing menial labor/tasks做枯燥的体力活/工作
2 menial /ˈmiːnijəl/ noun
plural menials
2 menial
/ˈmiːnijəl/
noun
plural menials
Learner's definition of MENIAL
[count] old-fashioned
: a person (such as a servant) who does boring or unpleasant work for little money : someone who does menial work下等仆人
- low-paid menials低收入的下等仆人
: a person doing menial work
specifically : a domestic (see domestic entry 1 sense 4) servant or retainer (see retainer entry 1 sense 1a)
menially adverb
Synonyms
Example Sentences
Noun immigrants to that country faced fierce prejudice and could expect to find work only as menials Adjective every command was obeyed in the menial manner of someone who seemed grateful just to be in the presence of a celebrity
Recent Examples on the Web
Expert Panel®, Forbes, 1 June 2022 For Angel, that means figuring out how to survive as a woman who doesn’t want to lead a menial, humdrum life. Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2022 And yet, the marketplace depends on their willingness to do menial, backbreaking labor for less than minimum wage and without benefits. Carlos Alberto Sánchez, SFChronicle.com, 27 Oct. 2020 Paolo Confino, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2022 As a Division II assistant, his duties sometimes involve menial tasks like lining the fields before camp. Nathan Baird, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2022 What is most funny is how these KPI systems all see the engineers as measurable menial workers, not as the highly educated, valuable assets that companies need to function and generate profits. Mattias Bergstrom, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022 Once viewed as a back-office role relegated to dealing with menial people matters, HR executives are now strategy-driving business leaders, and have wide latitude in all areas of a company—from the board to employees, and even external stakeholders. Amber Burton, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2022 The saga of Kidd Creole, from the pinnacle of hip-hop stardom to a Bronx rooming house and a series of menial temp jobs, is a parable of rap’s first generation. New York Times, 16 June 2022 And despite anti-discrimination laws, businesses routinely kept Black employees in menial positions. David James, Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2022 As former Colorado state historian William Wei notes, the westward expansion era tolerated Chinese more as menial laborers than as settlers. Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Apr. 2022 It’s also, at every turn, a show that opts for down-and-dirty entertainment at the expense of a more tangibly substantive show that appears to have been sent out by its tyrannical boss on a menial errand. Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Apr. 2022 See More
Noun
Introducing artificial intelligence into your business can help you to minimize the menial. Expert Panel®, Forbes, 1 June 2022 For Angel, that means figuring out how to survive as a woman who doesn’t want to lead a menial, humdrum life. Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2022 And yet, the marketplace depends on their willingness to do menial, backbreaking labor for less than minimum wage and without benefits. Carlos Alberto Sánchez, SFChronicle.com, 27 Oct. 2020 Adjective
Those menial tasks disproportionately fall to women, according to a study from the American Economic Review. Paolo Confino, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2022 As a Division II assistant, his duties sometimes involve menial tasks like lining the fields before camp. Nathan Baird, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2022 What is most funny is how these KPI systems all see the engineers as measurable menial workers, not as the highly educated, valuable assets that companies need to function and generate profits. Mattias Bergstrom, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022 Once viewed as a back-office role relegated to dealing with menial people matters, HR executives are now strategy-driving business leaders, and have wide latitude in all areas of a company—from the board to employees, and even external stakeholders. Amber Burton, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2022 The saga of Kidd Creole, from the pinnacle of hip-hop stardom to a Bronx rooming house and a series of menial temp jobs, is a parable of rap’s first generation. New York Times, 16 June 2022 And despite anti-discrimination laws, businesses routinely kept Black employees in menial positions. David James, Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2022 As former Colorado state historian William Wei notes, the westward expansion era tolerated Chinese more as menial laborers than as settlers. Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Apr. 2022 It’s also, at every turn, a show that opts for down-and-dirty entertainment at the expense of a more tangibly substantive show that appears to have been sent out by its tyrannical boss on a menial errand. Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Apr. 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
Adjective and Noun
Middle English meynial, from Anglo-French meignal, from mesnee, mayné household, retinue, from Vulgar Latin *mansionata, from Latin mansion-, mansio dwelling — more at mansion
First Known Use
Noun
14th century, in the meaning defined above
Adjective
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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