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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But both forecasts could prove optimistic in a “no hire” labor market combined with a prolonged energy price shock.
From Barron's
And earlier in February, Citrini Research published a blog post outlining a scenario in which AI would force widespread shifts in U.S. labor markets.
From MarketWatch
This time, healthcare isn’t here to save the labor market.
It’s taking many people a really long time to find a new job in the current “low fire, low hire” labor market.
From MarketWatch
Here is detailed live coverage of the U.S. labor market and other economic developments from MarketWatch’s Washington team.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
