Exhausting exertion (4)

I believe the answer is:

toil

(Other definitions for toil that I've seen before include "Work extremely hard" , "Manual labour" , "Work hard and long" , "Work hard, labour" , "Work incessantly" .)

I've seen this clue in the Newsday.

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