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
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
He also confronted issues such as labor and crime on campuses.
From Los Angeles Times
Across the tent, in a display of performance art, Amanda Ross-Ho continuously pushes a giant, inflatable Earth around a soccer field, symbolic of “the labor it takes to just keep things going all the time.”
From Los Angeles Times
Construction and labor costs have gone up since then, too.
This base allowed to soar last Sunday’s spire of victory at another Jack Hughes’s laboring hand.
The labor law is different: It requires votes, signaling Milei might have the support—and necessary willingness to make concessions—to pursue tougher changes ahead, including tax and pension overhauls, political analysts here said.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
