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labor-saving

labor-saving adjective: making work easier or faster.

Adjective

labor-saving (comparative more labor-saving, superlative most labor-saving)

  1. Making work easier or faster.
    • laborsaving devices such as food processors and dishwashers
    • The proliferation of labor-saving devices has not given us more leisure time, paradoxically.

Forms of labor-saving

comparativemore labor-saving
superlativemost labor-saving
alternative formlaborsaving
alternative formlabour-saving
alternative formlaboursaving

Origin of labor-saving

From labor + saving.

Questions about labor-saving

What does labor-saving mean?
Labor-saving means making work easier or faster.
What part of speech is labor-saving?
Labor-saving is an adjective.

Words near labor-saving in the dictionary

  1. Labor Zionisms
  2. labor-intensive
  3. labor-intensiveness
  4. labor-saver
  5. labor-savers
  6. labor-saving
  7. labor-value theory
  8. laboral
  9. laborant
  10. laborants
  11. laborate

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