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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Although the rate of inflation was marginal and below the long-run survey trend, companies in the RatingDog survey reported increases in fuel, raw material and labor costs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Economists estimate the U.S. needs to add just 50,000 jobs a month, if that, to absorb the new entrants into the labor force.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 2, 2026
Friday’s monthly jobs report will give an update on the state of the nation’s labor market.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
This is the first time the labor group has sat down with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, since both WGA and SAG-AFTRA went on a historic strike in 2023.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026
She was clearly in labor, and they had to bring her back to the midwife, to the safety of their own home.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
