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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They also developed a new approach to track how labor income and capital income influence earnings over an entire working life.
From Science Daily
Because of the shortage, more than 41% of controllers work 10 hours a day for six days a week, the labor union’s spokesman said.
The latest, if tardy, look at the labor market wasn’t so bad at first glance.
From MarketWatch
The latest, if tardy, look at the labor market wasn’t so bad at first glance.
From MarketWatch
Xu is a bit player in what has become one of the biggest segments of China’s labor market.
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