labor of love


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Synonyms for labor of love

productive work performed voluntarily without material reward or compensation

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Bosch's Marketing Director Georg Kazantzidis added: "When we saw Labor of Love's request on facebook for some new washing machines we were only too happy to help."
The towers, a labor of love that have evolved over the past 45 years, are made from scrap metal and shards of glass and porcelain.
Conscripting his equally unhappy adolescent son (Hayden Christensen) into this labor of love, father and son discover the pleasures of constructing a house and a home and are transformed by work that has called for their best efforts.
"My involvement in football for 60 years has been a labor of love. I've been blessed and have received more than I've given because of the people I've worked with.
It is a communal labor of love with an eclectic mix of dance, rock and hip-hop acts joining an ever growing list of other artists on its various stages occupying over 120,000 square meters.
For MacDonald, a former investment banker, this first book is clearly a labor of love. Coming in at 550 pages, it is a magisterial history, ranging from the Bronze Age to the present, of public debt and how it changed the balance of power between nations.
He then launched what he describes as "a labor of love" to see that Salomon received the Medal of Honor (Salomon had once been nominated for it only to be denied on a technicality).
My career has been a labor of love for my fellow veterans, and I could never have succeed if not for the vision and wisdom of people like National Adjutant Art Wilson, National Service and Legislative Headquarters Executive Director Dave Gorman, and National Headquarters Executive Director Rick Patterson."
Labor of Love, 2001, is a dense crowd of owls and other birds of prey with dead mice or rabbits in their beaks; lurking behind is a bloodred background peppered with hearts.
The work is clearly a labor of love for Mike Bellafaire, Command Historian.
It is a labor of love that has taken Roy DeCarava forty years to publish.
It's a labor of love right now, he joked, "But down the road it's going to make me a cyber-multimillionaire."
The "Battlefield Earth" debacle is a reminder that when a star gets the backing for his "labor of love," the results can be less than lovable.
Edited by two of the late Rene Fortin's colleagues at Providence College, Gaining upon Certainty is a labor of love, a memorial to a beloved friend and mentor.