eliminating or lessening physical labor: labor-saving appliances
labor-saving
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Adjective
(comparative more laborsaving, superlative most laborsaving)
- Making work easier or faster.
- The proliferation of laborsaving devices has not given us more leisure time, paradoxically.
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Sentence Examples
- In the early 1900s, many of these conveniences were unheard of, and even the staff of the St. Regis got the luxury treatment - the hotel's maids were among the first to use labor-saving vacuum cleaners.
- Today, we also depend on modern, labor-saving devices like the washer and dryer to save us time.
WORDS NEAR labor-saving IN THE DICTIONARY
- labor-saving
- labor union
- labor-union
- labor-unions