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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“If you hate your wife, it’s a lot easier to justify exploiting her unpaid labor for your own personal gain,” she told me.
From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026
“When this ratio flattens, it suggests a potential balancing of labor supply and demand,” Jefferson said, according to a published text of his remarks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026
“The labor market is entirely unperturbed by developments in the Middle East,” he adds.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026
And if AI is as successful as its advocates claim, it will have massive macroeconomic disturbances, particularly to the labor market.
From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026
Despite Marx & Haas Clothing Company’s concessions to the labor union, the workrooms were crowded and the air was filthy.
From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell
