laborsaving
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Definition
Adjective: Designed to reduce or eliminate the need for human physical effort, especially manual work. It describes tools, machines, or methods that make tasks easier and less time-consuming.
Usage
The adjective "laborsaving" is used to describe a device, invention, or technique. It typically comes before a noun. * It is a laborsaving device. * We invested in laborsaving equipment. * The laborsaving technique improved efficiency.
Examples
- The invention of the dishwasher was a major laborsaving breakthrough for households.
- Farmers use various laborsaving machinery, such as tractors and harvesters.
- This software is a laborsaving tool that automates repetitive data entry tasks.
Advanced Usage
- Conceptual Use: The term can be applied to abstract systems or processes that reduce mental or administrative effort.
- The new filing system is a laborsaving innovation for the office staff.
- Economic/Social Context: Often discussed in terms of productivity, economic development, and changing work patterns.
- The Industrial Revolution introduced many laborsaving technologies that transformed society.
Variants and Related Words
- Labor-saving (adjective): An alternative hyphenated spelling. Both "laborsaving" and "labor-saving" are correct.
- Labor saver (noun): A thing that saves labor.
- This electric can opener is a real labor saver.
Synonyms
- Effort-saving
- Time-saving
- Efficient
- Mechanized
- Automated
Antonyms
- Labor-intensive
- Manual
- Arduous
- Strenuous
Adjective
- designed to replace or conserve human and especially manual labor
- laborsaving devices like washing machines