noun
an unpleasant experience or situation, especially one that involves a lot of hard work or effort:
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the recent travails of the airline industrynoun
an unpleasant experience or situation that involves a lot of hard work, difficulties and/or pain
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the travails of life in post-war Britainnoun
work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil
a physical or mental exertion or piece of work : task, effort
agony, torment
labor, childbirth
verb
to labor hard : toil
labor sense 4