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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Notably, monthly nonfarm payrolls data for January are due on Friday and will give clues on the health of the labor market and the likely consequences for monetary policy.
“He’s a little more concerned about the labor market than I am,” Miran said of Waller.
Musalem also argued that an attempt to help the labor market by easing the short-term interest rates controlled by the Fed could be counterproductive.
With the labor market likely deteriorating further and inflation expected to ease, the next Fed chief could uncontroversially reduce rates, Tombs said.
From Barron's
By applying rational labor to raw materials furnished by nature, we can increase the supply of desirable goods and thus reduce incentives for violence.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
