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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While the U.S. added jobs in fields such as healthcare and education in 2025, signs are growing that the white-collar labor market is now seizing up.
Families like the Heckings are recognizing the upside, particularly as artificial intelligence disrupts the labor market.
The coming months could prove to be Milei’s biggest test yet, with overhauling labor laws a cornerstone of his agenda.
Building large-scale power plants or expanding grid infrastructure takes years, and delays are getting longer amid equipment shortages, a labor crunch and rising costs.
Mexico overtook China as the top foreign-goods supplier to the U.S. in 2023 and has become its largest buyer, owing to deep regional manufacturing integration and a large, young, low‑cost labor pool.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
