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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One founder, John Loeber, penned his own essay in opposition, arguing that as AI challenges white-collar labor, governments will fund large-scale physical re-industrialization.
From MarketWatch
Plus, companies replace CEOs in record numbers and healthcare jobs power America’s labor market.
And Merz has urged Germans to work longer, which could lower labor costs, making exporters more competitive on global markets.
“You want that perfect candidate. You want that like, yes, this is the person,” said Sean Frame, a school labor organizer from Sacramento who is running for state Senate.
From Los Angeles Times
The conversation went beyond party leaders, taking place among delegates such as Gregory Hutchins, an academic labor researcher from Riverside.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
