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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The report suggests the labor market is firming across multiple sectors after near-zero job growth last year, despite more recent concerns about rising energy prices that have driven consumer sentiment to a record low.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2026
But the latest decisions, while likely impacting the status of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, do not substantially change the trajectory for the labor market.
From Barron's • Jun. 25, 2026
In some instances, the AI build-out could also add to labor costs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026
Which is not to say they aren’t out there — they are — but, as with domestic labor more broadly, a disproportionate share falls to mothers even when they have full-time jobs.
From Salon • Jun. 24, 2026
The use of forced slave labor by Europeans began almost as soon as the first Spanish settlers arrived in the New World.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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