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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Instead of postponing filming to resolve the labor dispute, producers pushed forward, crew members alleged.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
If the Strait of Hormuz reopens and energy markets calm down, he said, the recent inflation spike should prove manageable and his focus would return to a labor market he views as increasingly fragile.
From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026
In November Mr. Eberstadt published “America’s Human Arithmetic,” a collection of essays mainly on the subject of labor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
It was a reaction to corporate abuses and corrupt governance and horrific things like child labor and environmental destruction.
From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026
He scowled at the question of how a person might find out who was in which labor camp.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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