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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LinkedIn estimates the tool could save 10,000 labor hours this year, though it declined to put a dollar figure to those savings.
The US economy is expected to post another solid economic growth reading Tuesday, but the much-delayed figures likely will not settle debate on the labor market, AI and other variables.
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Customs and Border Protection has held up DJI shipments at ports due to concerns about the company using forced labor in its manufacturing.
Some more minor factors are also at play: rising U.S. production costs largely due to heightened immigration enforcement and curtailed labor supply, higher export logistics costs, and more climate-related yield variability.
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The U.S. economy grew at a healthy clip in the third quarter despite very weak labor conditions in the third quarter, according to projections from economists.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
