Definitions for laborsaving

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

la′bor•sav`ing(adj.)

or la′bor-sav`ing

  1. designed to reduce human labor:

    The dishwasher is a laborsaving device.

Origin of laborsaving:

1765–75

Princeton's WordNet

  1. laborsaving, laboursaving(adj)

    designed to replace or conserve human and especially manual labor

    "laborsaving devices like washing machines"

Wiktionary

  1. laborsaving(Adjective)

    Describing something that makes work easier or faster.

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


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