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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An unusual divergence between GDP and new jobs shows worker productivity is making up for a slowdown in immigration and the labor force.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
Investors are also grappling with questions about what impact artificial intelligence will have on the labor market and what’s next from the Federal Reserve.
From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026
Elected officials, labor unions and other groups that had endorsed Swalwell abandoned him en masse after the allegations against him were publicized.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
It means letting go of the expectation that women provide free emotional and physical labor, and it requires expecting more of men.
From Salon • Apr. 13, 2026
The girls also worked as substitute labor so that female factory workers could take a four-week vacation.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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