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Meaning of hard yakka | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
hɑːd ˈjækə

Definitions

Hard work.

Australia, New-Zealand, colloquial, uncountable

Examples

The men who did all the hard yakka believed in a short cutshoot the bastards; it was cheaper and easier.”
somebody sits down and does the solid, hard yakka of talking his way through with the waterside workers and with the union movement generally
“At the age of sixteen, boy it was hard yakka, pouring fifty ton of red hot molten gun metal from the big firebrick lined oil furnace almost every day of the working week.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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