LABORSAVING

laborsaving, laboursaving

(adjective) designed to replace or conserve human and especially manual labor; “laborsaving devices like washing machines”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

laborsaving (comparative more laborsaving, superlative most laborsaving)

Making work easier or faster.

The proliferation of laborsaving devices has not given us more leisure time, paradoxically.

Source: Wiktionary


La"bor-sav`ing, a.

Definition: Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, laborsaving machinery.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

25 December 2024

UNAMBIGUOUS

(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the largest collection of coffee pots belongs to Robert Dahl (Germany) and consists of 27,390 coffee pots as of 2 November 2012, in Rövershagen, Germany.

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