labor
Usage
What are other ways to say labor?
Labor particularly denotes hard manual work: backbreaking labor; arduous labor. Drudgery suggests continuous, dreary, and dispiriting work, especially of a menial or servile kind: the drudgery of household tasks. Toil suggests wearying or exhausting labor: toil that breaks down the worker's health. Work is the general word and may apply to exertion that is either easy or hard: fun work; heavy work.
Example Sentences
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The sectors at risk are those that rely on asymmetric information or high fees for routine cognitive labor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
The technology will have two well-understood offsetting effects on the demand for labor in a given industry.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
Cheyenne shows what happens when the AI surge lands in a place with a critical labor and housing shortage.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
The term “passive income” doesn’t begin to describe the stress and emotional labor of dealing with damage from short-term renters and cleaning/maintenance fees.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
About midnight—when the night is equal, as the elders say—my mom started to go into labor.
From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola
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