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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“We expect the overall picture to continue to point to a tepid development of the U.S. labor market,” SEB’s Marcus Widen says in a note.
That could help address a growing mismatch in Bangladesh’s labor market: Young people with higher-education qualifications are more likely to be unemployed than those with basic schooling.
A further softening of the U.S. labor market, together with easing inflationary pressures, will probably “encourage” the Fed to cut rates twice more this year, the economist and currency strategist says.
But their research shows that the rates are rising among borrowers in counties that have increasing unemployment rates or worsening labor markets.
From Barron's
Job security was a top concern for workers heading into 2026, and recent surveys have shown that even people making $100,000 are now worried about the economy and the labor market.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
