laborsaving

Example Sentences

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Everyday American life has steadily improved over the last 20 years in good economic times or bad, Johnson writes, thanks in part to the flow of "laborsaving technologies."

From Reuters • Oct. 5, 2012

When these factories prospered, more laborsaving machines and factories were built.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

The Luddites attacked whole factories in northern England beginning in 1811, destroying laborsaving machinery.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

Often spurred by the utilities' own advertising campaigns, Americans are so avid for laborsaving machines that power output now doubles every ten years to meet demand.

From Time Magazine Archive

For the most part, he continued to use those same tools even as more modern, laborsaving power tools came to market in the 1930s.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown