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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The consul general had been responding to a Times editorial supporting a boycott of products made with cotton produced in the Xinjiang region of China due to the use of forced labor.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
The turmoil outside Delaney Hall began after detainees inside launched a hunger and labor strike to protest conditions.
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
If this is only about a better division of labor with Europe, why pare back strategic bombers, a unique American capability?
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
“The men and the women decided, in solidarity with what was happening outside, to engage in a hunger and a labor strike,” she said.
From Slate • May 29, 2026
The shift to paid labor, which was considered more efficient, grew more quickly as the Northern states moved into manufacturing in the earliest days of the Industrial Revolution.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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