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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LABOR: Reasonable settlements by major unions like the rubber and electrical workers have lately helped keep inflation from climbing even higher.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus the Initiates are inspired with a just idea of Masonry, to wit, that it is essentially WORK; both teaching and practising LABOR; and that it is altogether emblematic.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert
LABOR: In 1967 the working-age population numbered about 932,000, of which approximately 745,000 were employed.
From Area Handbook for Albania by Elpern, Sarah Jane
LABOR: Working population employed by the state in 1969 numbered about 5 million.
From Area Handbook for Romania by Bernier, Donald W.
I am informed by a Mulhouse manufacturer that factory stocks in Alsace are generally below par and that this industry has already become a means of getting money by STOCK-JOBBING instead of by LABOR.
From System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)
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