Star in Cannes barely gets work (4)

I believe the answer is:

toil

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'work' is the definition.
(toil is a kind of work)

I don't understand the remainder of the clue.

(Other definitions for toil that I've seen before include "Work really hard" , "Manual labour" , "Hard physical work" , "Work hard, labour" , "Work incessantly" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.

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