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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Instead, the bakery’s new AI planning tool helps it track the ingredients, labor and production schedules needed to bake products such as its Schnibble mini-Bundt cakes and scale up when new orders arrive.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026
Despite the overall labor market looking a bit stronger in recent months, the employment outlook for teenagers remains challenging.
From Barron's • May 25, 2026
Worth Girvan has endorsements from a long list of state Democratic lawmakers, the county Democratic Party, the Sierra Club and labor unions.
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026
Some industry experts say India has many of the ingredients needed to make lightning-fast delivery viable: dense cities, a large labor pool and a vast customer base accustomed to buying daily essentials from neighborhood shops.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026
When my mother was pregnant, right up until the time of labor, she would go out and do chores.
From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola
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