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labor-saving

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men: as, a labor-saving machine.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; designed to replace or conserve human and especially manual labor.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective designed to replace or conserve human and especially manual labor

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Examples

  • In one intentional community, some members grew tired of deliberately avoiding labor-saving devices and called for the use of a gasoline-powered tractor to pull the plow, but they were denounced by those who believed that the use of anything but the hoe and rake would violate the founding principle of the commune.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • If he had more room, he would be able to put in a score of labor-saving and money - saving improvements.

    Chapter 44 2010

  • Responding to the needs of a world that hungered for more labor-saving devices, Japanese manufacturers shifted to higher-value products and quality improved.

    Matthew Yglesias » American Manufacturing is Very Productive 2010

  • The market will not only adjust but it will grow as companies speed up their rate of development of labor-saving innovations.

    Immigrant Labor Market Issues, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • The tracker in effect is a labor-saving device to help police do their work, the government says.

    Justices Weigh Privacy vs. GPS Bugs Jess Bravin 2011

  • It does not appeal to the workingman who has had his head broken by a policeman's club, his union treasury bankrupted by a court decision, or his job taken away from him by a labor-saving invention.

    Revolution 2010

  • "It organizes industry on an enormous, labor-saving scale, and abolishes childish, wasteful competition."

    WANTED: A NEW LAW OF DEVELOPMENT 2010

  • More efficient electric power plants didn't lead to declining consumer electricity spending, but to widespread and expanding electricity uses like near-universal air conditioning, larger homes and labor-saving appliances.

    Getting Real About Our Energy Policy, or Lack of One 2011

  • We can also agree that the larger the product through the employment of labor-saving methods the better, as there will be more to be divided, but again the question of the division ....

    THE CLASS STRUGGLE 2010

  • Those Luddites who once argued that we should protect jobs by resisting advances in labor-saving technology are rightly regarded as fools by today's peddlers of standard economic wisdom.

    The High Cost of a Cheap Pound Jamie Whyte 2011

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