Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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!