laborsaving

or la·bor-sav·ing

[ ley-ber-sey-ving ]

adjective

1. designed or intended to reduce or replace human labor:

   The dishwasher is a laborsaving device.

Word History and Origins

Origin of laborsaving¹

First recorded in 1765–75; labor + saving

Example Sentences

For the most part, he continued to use those same tools even as more modern, laborsaving power tools came to market in the 1930s.

From Literature

Everyday American life has steadily improved over the last 20 years in good economic times or bad, Johnson writes, thanks in part to the flow of "laborsaving technologies."

From Reuters

The illustration shows a laborsaving machine in use which enables the cook to go away and leave meat roasting for an hour at a time.

From Project Gutenberg

The agricultural papers and agricultural fairs had not succeeded in popularizing these great laborsaving devices.

From Project Gutenberg

The needle workers were opposed, as they have generally been, to any sort of laborsaving machinery, and there was no manufacturer willing to buy even one machine at the price Howe asked, three hundred dollars.

From Project Gutenberg

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