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 data calendar is thin on Friday before it returns to regular releases next week, including labor market data, a key input for the Federal Reserve’s policy.
After he explained that his wife was in labor, they quickly waved him on.
From Los Angeles Times
The associate professor of sociology and faculty director of the UC Merced labor center based his analysis on U.S. census data from those months and published his findings over the summer.
From Los Angeles Times
Workers paid less than minimum wage can file a wage theft claim with the California labor commissioner’s office.
From Los Angeles Times
At the same time, the consequences if AI lives up to the promise of replacing huge amounts of human labor could be just as dire.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
