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Definition: LABOR-SAVING |
LABOR-SAVINGAdjective1. Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, labor-saving machinery. |
Date "LABOR-SAVING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1852. (references) |
Crosswords: LABOR-SAVING |
| English words defined with "LABOR-SAVING": Luddite. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Senator Daniel Webster | They are usually denominated labor-saving machines, but it would be more just to call them labor-doing machines. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Recognizes the need to balance the use of labor-saving devices (e.g., power lawnmowers, golf carts, automobiles) and sedentary activities (e.g., watching television, use of computers) with activities that involve a higher level of physical exertion. (references) | |
Economic History | Switzerland | Software solutions which aim at increasing productivity, automating transaction processing, and labor-saving operations are in great demand. (references) |
Argentina | Economic reforms and the introduction of labor-saving technologies have increased demand for highly skilled workers but reduced employment opportunities for unskilled workers. (references) | |
Cote D'ivoire | Wage rates are relatively high by regional standards, but costs of capital goods, transport, and energy are also high; it is therefore not obvious that high labor costs provoke overspending on labor-saving technology. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "labor-saving"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | abor-savinglay.(various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งช่วยทุ่นแรง. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "LABOR-SAVING" (pronounced 'La"bor-sav`ing'): Aforegoing, Almsgiving, Backbiting, Batfowling, Bed-molding, Bed-moulding, Birdcatching, Bird's-nesting, Bluestocking, Bookbinding, Bookkeeping, Bookselling, Boxhauling, Bricklaying, Broadspreading, Bushfighting, Bushwhacking, By-drinking, By-turning, Cabinetmaking, Cat-harping, Cheeseparing, Childbearing, Churchgoing, Clear-seeing, Clear-shining, Costeaning, Cowleeching, Crib-biting, Cross-reading, Cross-tining, Cross-vaulting, Deerstalking, Diesinking, Direct-acting, Do-nothing, Double-acting, Double-tonguing, Downfalling, Downlying, Drawfiling, Dressmaking, Easy-going, Farseeing, Fault-finding, Findfaulting, Fireprrofing, Fly-catching, Forespeaking, forthcoming, Forthputing, Fox-hunting, free-living, Free-milling, freethinking, Gaingiving, Glass-gazing, god-fearing, Gold-beating, good-looking, Handwriting, haymaking, heartbreaking, Heart-eating, heartrending, Heartswelling, Highflying, High-reaching, high-sounding, High-swelling, Home-coming, Home-dwelling, Home-speaking, Horseshoeing, housebreaking, housewarming, Ill-looking, Inbeaming, Inbeing, Inburning, Incensebreathing, ingrowing, Interviewing, Kiteflying, Knee-crooking, Know-nothing, Lady-killing, Lammaking, Landlouping, Landowning, law-abiding, Lawgiving, leave-taking, life-giving, Life-saving, logrolling, Love-making, Manstealing, Merrymeeting, mischief-making, Moonshining, Nap-taking, Night-blooming, Night-faring, Nonslaveholding, Oathbreaking, Offscouring, Ongoing, On-looking, Outbreaking, Outcasting, Outlying, Outscouring, Pig-sticking, Pitfalling, Plain-dealing, Plant-eating, Playgoing, Railroading, Rush-bearing, seafaring, seagoing, Self-satisfying, Sharpshooting, Sheep-shearing, shipbuilding, shoemaking, shoplifting, shortcoming, Side-taking, Silk-stocking, Single-acting, slaveholding, Sleepwaking, sleepwalking, Snowshoeing, soothsaying, Stargasing, Steamboating, Steeplechasing, Stem-clasping, Stem-winding, Story-telling, Sweethearting, Tear-falling, Thanksgiving, thoroughgoing, timesaving, Top-draining, Topsoiling, Tufthunting, typewriting, Underbuilding, underclothing, Underdealing, Underfilling, Waterproofing, Water-standing, Wayfaring, Way-going, Weatherboarding, Welfaring, Well-being, Welldoing, Well-liking, Well-meaning, Wind-sucking, Wire-pulling, Wonder-working, Woolward-going, Wrongdoing. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: laborsaving. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-g-i-l-n-o-r-s-v" | |
-2 letters: absolving. | |
-3 letters: abrasion, bargains, baronial, bolivars, bravoing, garboils, granolas, laboring, orinasal, salvoing, savoring, valonias, variolas. | |
-4 letters: abasing, ablings, abrosia, agnails, agnosia, airbags, albinos, analogs, angoras, argalis, bagnios, bailors, bargain, barongs, basilar, basinal, bisnaga, blaring, bolivar, borings, braving, brogans, gabions, garboil, gavials, girasol, globins, glorias, goblins, granola, lavabos, logania, origans, ovarial, ovarian, raglans, ravings, rovings, sabring, salving, sangria, savarin, signora, slaving, soaring, solaria, solving, sorbing, vaginal, vaginas, valonia, variola, viragos. | |
-5 letters: ablins, aboral, agnail, agonal, agoras, agrias, airbag, albino, algins, algors, aligns, aloins, analog, angora, anvils, argali, argals, argils, argols, argons, arsino, avails, avians, avions, baaing, bagnio, bailor, bairns, baling, baring, barong, barons, basing, basion, bingos, biogas, blains, bogans, bonsai, borals, boring, brails, brains, brasil, bravas, bravos, brings, brogan, broils, gabion, gavial, gibson, girons, glairs, globin, gloria, gnarls, gobans, goblin, gorals, graals, grails, grains, grison, groans, groins, invars, isobar, labors, lagans, lanais, largos, larvas, lasing, lavabo, laving, lianas, liangs, libras, ligans, lingas, logans, lorans, losing, loving, nairas, narial, nasial, navars, norias, oaring, ogival, onagri, orangs, orbing, organa, organs, origan, raglan, rasing, raving, ravins, rivals, robing, robins, rosing, roving, sailor, salina, saliva, salvia, salvor, sangar, sarong, saving, savior, signal, signor, silvan, slogan, soling, soring, sovran, vagina, valors, varnas, vigors, vinals, violas, virago, virgas, voling. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 41 42 4F 52 2D 53 41 56 49 4E 47 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01000001 01000010 01001111 01010010 00101101 01010011 01000001 01010110 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L A B O R - S A V I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0041 0042 004F 0052 002D 0053 0041 0056 0049 004E 0047 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)463536495215533556434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Familiar 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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