heavy lifting

[ hev-ee lif-ting ]

/ ˈhɛv i ˈlɪf tɪŋ /

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noun Informal.

hard work: A team of researchers did the heavy lifting for the author.

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Origin of heavy lifting

First recorded in 1930–35

Words nearby heavy lifting

heavy heart, with a, heavy hitter, heavy hydrogen, heavy ion, heavy-laden, heavy lifting, heavy metal, heavy middleweight, heavy nitrogen, heavy oil, heavy oxygen

How to use heavy lifting in a sentence

By turning the heavy lifting over to machine learning, you can ensure stronger outcomes for your campaigns while also giving yourself more time to further optimize other key advertising elements.
Smart Bidding: Five ways machine learning improves PPC advertising|Gabrielle Sadeh|February 10, 2021|Search Engine Watch
The Clippers had fallen to 21st in bench scoring through Sunday, relying far more on their starters to do the heavy lifting than in previous seasons.
The Clippers don’t look ready to seriously challenge the Lakers|Ben Golliver|January 11, 2021|Washington Post
DNNs trained on image recognition are now doing the heavy lifting automatically, turning a job that took months or years into one that’s complete in a matter of hours or days.
An Existential Crisis in Neuroscience - Issue 94: Evolving|Grigori Guitchounts|December 30, 2020|Nautilus
Human capital is your biggest asset as a newbie investor, meaning your future earnings potential should enable you to save money over time and allow compounding to do the heavy lifting for you.
How your personal finances can survive a pandemic|Lee Clifford|December 28, 2020|Fortune

You may find that if you let your TV remote do the heavy lifting, some of the others can stay in a drawer.
Get rid of the remote controls you don’t need. Here’s how.|Whitson Gordon|December 16, 2020|Popular-Science
The clichés about football-obsessed husbands and frustrated wives are pretty heavy-handed.
‘A Gronking to Remember’ Speed Read: 8 Naughtiest Bits|Emily Shire|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
“There is a heavy security presence but nothing has changed,” agrees Father Javier.
Mexico’s Priests Are Marked for Murder|Jason McGahan|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The running machines are a gloomy chorus of heavy-footed stomping.
How to Survive the New Year ‘Gympocalypse’|Tim Teeman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
“JSwipe is currently under heavy load,” flashed across the screen, one night as a friend and I looked at it.
My Week on Jewish Tinder|Emily Shire|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Up till then I was just a dog-assed heavy, one of the posse.
The Story Behind Lee Marvin’s Liberty Valance Smile|Robert Ward|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The policemen looked dull and heavy, as if never again would any one be criminal, and as if they had come to know it.
Bella Donna|Robert Hichens
Drone: the largest tube of a bag-pipe, giving forth a dull heavy tone.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
Hunter-Weston despite his heavy losses will be advancing to-morrow which should divert pressure from you.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
And lifting them carefully one off the other, he took out a deal box that had stood in the lowest stratum.
Checkmate|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Heavy firing continued all that afternoon, inflicting great loss on the rebels, whilst the Spaniards lost one soldier.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman