labor
Usage
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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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Key bullish drivers remain in place, he says, pointing to AI spending, economic strength, a reasonably strong labor market, consumer spending, manageable inflation and the promise of further Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts.
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Key bullish drivers remain in place, he says, pointing to AI spending, economic strength, a reasonably strong labor market, consumer spending, manageable inflation and the promise of further Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts.
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Were the labor market to get any worse, it could jeopardize the five-year-old U.S. expansion.
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For Slimmon, it makes sense that the Fed may be cutting rates this year given concerns over softening in the U.S. labor market.
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About half of Americans between 62 and 74 cannot count on even $25,000 per person per year, which is barely enough to cover basic expenses, according to labor economist Teresa Ghilarducci.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
