Meaning of labour-saving | Babel Free

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Adjective. [C1]

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Examples

“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.”

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