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labour-saving en · ADJ

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of labor-saving.
   alt of labor-saving
   • Thanks to the adoption by Amsterdam shipyards of standardized designs and labour-saving devices, the fluyt maximized carrying capacity and minimized cost. 2007, Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory, Penguin, published 2008, page 97:
   • […] 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. 1906, Edwin A. Pratt, chapter 10, in The Transition in Agriculture, London: John Murray, page 116:
   • 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. 1904, Carolyn Wells, “Shopping”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 63:

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