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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With the labor market likely deteriorating further and inflation expected to ease, the next Fed chief could uncontroversially reduce rates, Tombs said.
From Barron's
By applying rational labor to raw materials furnished by nature, we can increase the supply of desirable goods and thus reduce incentives for violence.
My mother stayed in the hospital on bedrest as her doctors held off labor.
The central bank left rates alone because of worries about persistent inflation above the Fed’s 2% target and because of what Powell referred to as a more stable labor market.
From MarketWatch
The question is whether this division of labor—machines for volume, humans for discernment—is a fruitful partnership or a more troubling redefinition of what creative work looks like.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
