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 labor market is usually closely linked to the pulse of the overall economy.
CBP ordered the immediate detention at all US ports of shipments of Linglong-produced tires from its Zrenjanin factory in northern Serbia, following an "investigation and review of information" indicating forced labor at the facility.
From Barron's
Federal Reserve, by contrast, cut its benchmark rate this month, and Fed officials are debating whether to do so again in the coming months as the labor market shows signs of softening.
And there’s a pleasure to be had in seeing the products of their labor—finished or even unfinished—photographed lovingly, in luxurious color and absorbing detail.
People are concerned about AI and what that does to the labor force.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
