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 U.S. labor market is ending 2025 on a sour note.
Subsequent orders weakened federal workers’ labor protections External link, mandated agency reorganization External link plans, and restricted new hires External link to no more than one for every four workers who departed.
From Barron's
My research leads me to worry about the effect that AI may have on the labor market: Policymakers should be preparing for major economic disruptions.
Nearly 40% of Florida’s construction labor force is foreign-born, with a large share undocumented.
That sequence is governed by permitting, labor availability, engineering complexity and capital formation, not by quarterly headlines.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
