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 utilities sector pay jump is likely due to increased demand for artificial intelligence, while the wage acceleration in food processing is likely due to restricted immigration cutting into the labor supply.
From Barron's
As to what is crimping profit margins, take your pick: tariffs, goods and labor inflation, higher shipping costs, high rent, even fluctuations in commodity prices.
From Barron's
Business and consumer spending are on an impressive upward trajectory, notwithstanding still-elevated inflation and interest rates, trade disruptions, and a cooling labor market—which also may be hotter than official data suggest.
From Barron's
“This leaves the economy vulnerable to shocks, because the labor market is the main firewall against a recession,” Sweet said.
The U.S. economy has been marked this year by the paradox of a rising stock market but a slowing labor market.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
