work-saving

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Washing machines, vacuum cleaners, and other work-saving devices meant fewer jobs for maids, so former maids began working in department stores.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

Kaiser has gone on with a program to bring in work-saving machinery, while maintaining a continuing dialogue with its union leaders on all aspects of employment.

From Time Magazine Archive

Consequently, she takes them out on her work-saving appliances, most of which are not built to withstand the general abuse she inflicts on them.

From Time Magazine Archive

Regarded as a milestone in industrial attempts to soften the impact of work-saving machines on employment, the fund will be operated by a joint management-labor committee with an impartial outsider as chairman.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of course, it is true that in my brief career at Levy Pants, Limited, I have succeeded in initiating sev eral work-saving methods.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole