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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
labour-saving
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a labour-saving deviceBritish English, a labor-saving device American English (= that reduces the amount of work you have to do)
▪ Modern houses have so many labour-saving devices.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
device
▪ In all, a labour-saving device for those with very large gardens.
▪ Used many times every day, it is the most time and labour-saving device ever invented for cooks.
▪ After the luxury of labour-saving devices it is just too tedious to go back to the old ways.
▪ If you can afford it, buy some labour-saving devices, like a washing machine.

Usage examples of "labour-saving".

There were several interesting labour-saving features, all of a startlingly practical rather than a merely gadgety character, and Gaiogi began to chip her gently about her domesticity, avoiding most adroitly any errors of taste which the nature of the occasion might have invited.

All sorts of labour-saving implements and agricultural machinery, and better breeds of cattle, are bought through the associations, and various arrangements for improving the quality of the produce begin to be introduced.

This generalization is less true of the better-paid workers, especially those who live in council houses and labour-saving flats, but it is true enough even of them to point to a difference of outlook.

Most of the machinery of modern language is labour-saving machinery.

Modern democracy called for lifts and labour-saving devices, for hot-water taps and cold-water taps and (horrible innovation!