Meaning Of The Word Treadmill

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Treadmill Meaning

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What's The Definition Of Treadmill?
treadmill
You can refer to a task or a job as a treadmill when you have to keep doing it although it is unpleasant and exhausting. treadmill in American English a kind of mill wheel turned by the weight of persons treading steps arranged around its circumference: formerly used as an instrument of prison discipline noun: an apparatus for producing rotary motion by the weight of people or animals, treading on a succession of moving steps or a belt that forms a kind of continuous path, as around the periphery of a pair of horizontal cylinders treadmill in British English noun: (formerly) an apparatus used to produce rotation, in which the weight of people or animals climbing steps on or around the periphery of a cylinder or wheel caused it to turn |
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