Definition of Laborsaving

1. Adjective. Designed to replace or conserve human and especially manual labor. "Laborsaving devices like washing machines"

Exact synonyms: Laboursaving
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Definition of Laborsaving

1. a. Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, labor-saving machinery.

Definition of Laborsaving

1. Adjective. Describing something that makes work easier or faster. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Laborsaving

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Laborsaving

laborforces
laboring
laborious
laboriously
laboriousness
laboriousnesses
laborist
laborists
laborite
laborites
laborless
laborlore
laborous
labors
labors of love
laborsaving (current term)
laborshed
laborsheds
laborsome
labour
labour'd
labour-intensive
labour camp
labour camps
labour complications
labour force
labour of love
labour onset
labour presentation

Literary usage of Laborsaving

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Agriculture and Economic Growth in Argentina, 1913-84 by Yair Mundlak, Domingo Cavallo, Roberto Domenech (1989)
"Most of the coefficients are positive, which implies that the corresponding variables are capital-using or laborsaving. Specifically, the effect of K/N on ..."

2. The Nationalist by Henry Willard Austin, John Storer Cobb, Nationalist Educational Association (1890)
"Shoes have cheapened since those days; but did laborsaving machinery do all this? ... Well, if laborsaving machinery is not the prime factor, what is? ..."

3. The Nationalist by Henry Willard Austin, John Storer Cobb, Nationalist Educational Association (1890)
"Shoes have cheapened since those days; but did laborsaving machinery do all this? ... Well, if laborsaving machinery is not the prime factor, what is? ..."

4. The Nationalist: A Monthly Magazine edited by Henry William Austin, John Storer Cobb (1890)
"Well, if laborsaving machinery is not the prime factor, what is? I answer, laborsaving machinery is but one of the numerous benefits which follow in the ..."

5. Decimal Classification and Relative Index for Libraries and Personal Use: In ...by Melvil Dewey by Melvil Dewey (1922)
"Where a pamflet covers both appliance and method, class with predominant feature .2 Appliances laborsaving tools and devices See also 651. ..."

6. Decimal Classification and Relativ Index for Libraries, Clippings, Notes, Etc by Melvil Dewey (1919)
"Where a pamflet covers both appliance and method, class with predominant feature Appliances laborsaving tools and devices See also 051. ..."

7. AIDS, Poverty, and Hunger: Challenges and Responses by Stuart Gillespie (2006)
"... that the appropriate policy response for agricultural research and extension systems is to focus inordinately on laborsaving agricultural technology. ..."

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