Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

labour-saving

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.34 in modern English

Syllables: labour-sav-ing
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Alternative form of labor-saving.

Example Sentences

"Not only kitchen utensils, but laundry fittings, and household furnishings generally; including patent labour-saving devices, and newly invented contrivances which were supposed to be of great aid to any housewife."
"[…] potato-growing can evidently be more profitably followed by producers on a large scale, having all the advantages of labour-saving appliances, than by market-gardeners, allotment-holders, and other spade-workers on comparatively small line."
"Thanks to the adoption by Amsterdam shipyards of standardized designs and labour-saving devices, the fluyt maximized carrying capacity and minimized cost."

Inflected Forms

more labour-saving (comparative) most labour-saving (superlative)

Questions

What does labour-saving mean?: Alternative form of labor-saving.

How to pronounce labour-saving

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