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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Gautier makes all its furniture in France and faces higher labor and energy costs, as well as stricter regulatory standards.
In an innovation bull cycle, output per worker improves, which means labor costs go down.
From Barron's
On the other hand, weakness in the labor market—and, in turn, all the spending that depends upon it—may signal more fragility ahead.
The Fed cut rates at three straight meetings to end 2025 as it sought to cushion a weaker labor market.
Concern about the health of the labor market was a large factor in the decision to cut rates.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
