laborsaving

adjective

ˈlā-bər-ˌsā-viŋ How to pronounce laborsaving (audio)
Definition of laborsavingnext
as in automated
designed to replace or decrease human labor and especially physical labor a new laborsaving device let us clean the house in half the time

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  1. automated
  2. automatic
  3. robotic
Adjective
  • The system monitors equipment conditions, identifies abnormalities, and can initiate automated responses.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The Stop Flock Abuse Act would regulate automated license plate readers by imposing stricter limits on data, security and search functions.
    — DeJanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of automated
Adjective
  • District winners earn automatic berths into the FHSAA playoffs.
    — Chris Hays, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The Independent Payment Advisory Board, which was supposed to force automatic Medicare cuts if spending exceeded target growth rates, was repealed in 2018 without ever becoming operational.
    — Dana P. Goldman, STAT, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of automatic
Adjective
  • Five of the world's space agencies joined forces for the five-year mission that will attempt to land a robotic prospector and a rover on Phobos, the larger and closer of Mars' two pint-sized moons.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The experiment, conducted by computer scientists at Binghamton University in New York, exposed a security weakness in large language models (LLMs) used to plan robotic actions.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of robotic
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“Laborsaving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laborsaving. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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