Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Designed to conserve human energy in performing work or to decrease the amount of human labor needed.
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- adjective Describing something that makes work easier or faster.
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Examples
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But starting in the 1950s in Australia (where there was no large supply of foreign farm labor), farmers were compelled by circumstances to develop a laborsaving method called "dried-on-the-vine" (DOV) production.
The Employment Situation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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This hardly seems in keeping with my philosophical commitment to the laborsaving device that has defined work on The Farm thus far.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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This hardly seems in keeping with my philosophical commitment to the laborsaving device that has defined work on The Farm thus far.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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This hardly seems in keeping with my philosophical commitment to the laborsaving device that has defined work on The Farm thus far.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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This hardly seems in keeping with my philosophical commitment to the laborsaving device that has defined work on The Farm thus far.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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What would Ben Franklin have said about such laborsaving inventions as the robotic vacuum cleaner or the self-parking car?
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And he put up power lines to run his laborsaving devices.
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The gold standard of dubious laborsaving devices is the Clapper, from Joseph Enterprises, in San Francisco.
Lazy-Ass Nation Windolf, Jim 2007
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However, compared to Team Libby and the “trust fund” gag me, in terms of manpower and laborsaving resources, our boy Fitz is definately at an extreme disadvantage.
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Where it will not make a thick lump of cloth that will take too long to dry, it is laborsaving and space-saving to pin the ends of two garments together so that you use only half as many pins.
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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