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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For them, labor was a spiritual act, function guided form, beauty lay in simplicity, and well-designed objects need never change.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026
"As the labor market softens due to the fallout from the war, we expect the unemployment rate to edge up," she said.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
Stepping back, the labor market in many ways has narrowed to a single engine.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Employers added 178,000 jobs in March, and the unemployment rate dipped to 4.3%, indicating a solid labor market.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
He scowled at the question of how a person might find out who was in which labor camp.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
