work-saving

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Washing machines, vacuum cleaners, and other work-saving devices meant fewer jobs for maids, so former maids began working in department stores.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

Kaiser has gone on with a program to bring in work-saving machinery, while maintaining a continuing dialogue with its union leaders on all aspects of employment.

From Time Magazine Archive

Regarded as a milestone in industrial attempts to soften the impact of work-saving machines on employment, the fund will be operated by a joint management-labor committee with an impartial outsider as chairman.

From Time Magazine Archive

Consequently, she takes them out on her work-saving appliances, most of which are not built to withstand the general abuse she inflicts on them.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of course, it is true that in my brief career at Levy Pants, Limited, I have succeeded in initiating sev eral work-saving methods.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole