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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But after the closure of the Strait of Hormuz upended global energy supply chains, “nobody’s talking about reacceleration now,” said Guy Berger, a labor economist.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026
For them, labor was a spiritual act, function guided form, beauty lay in simplicity, and well-designed objects need never change.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026
Amarnath described the labor market heading into the shock as “robustly soggy,” or sluggish for some time but not falling apart.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026
The 10-year Treasury yield increased 0.032 percentage point to 4.344% on Friday amid oil price and labor market volatility.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
I stood and admired the fruits of my labor.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
