laborsaving devices like washing machines. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : The dishwasher is a laborsaving device. From Dictionary.com.
And he put up power lines to run his laborsaving devices. From Wordnik.com. [Julie Fefferman: I Got The iPhone] Reference
The gold standard of dubious laborsaving devices is the Clapper, from Joseph Enterprises, in San Francisco. From Wordnik.com. [Lazy-Ass Nation] Reference
What would Ben Franklin have said about such laborsaving inventions as the robotic vacuum cleaner or the self-parking car?. From Wordnik.com. [October 2007 Table of Contents] Reference
However, compared to Team Libby and the “trust fund” gag me, in terms of manpower and laborsaving resources, our boy Fitz is definately at an extreme disadvantage. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Hey Team Libby…(Part III)] Reference
A garbage disposal is everything a laborsaving device should be and so seldom is-noisy, fun, extremely hazardous, and so dazzlingly good at what it does that you cannot imagine how you ever managed without one. From Wordnik.com. [I'm A Stranger Here Myself]
But starting in the 1950s in Australia (where there was no large supply of foreign farm labor), farmers were compelled by circumstances to develop a laborsaving method called "dried-on-the-vine" (DOV) production. From Wordnik.com. [The Employment Situation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Devoted to the principle of conspicuous waste, on which all society is based, Presteign of Presteign had fitted his Victorian mansion in Central Park with elevators, house phones, dumb-waiters and all the other laborsaving devices which jaunting had made obsolete. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars My Destination]
This was formerly the greatest laborsaving machinery ever invented. From Wordnik.com. [The Grindwell Governing Machine] Reference
Smart meters aren't supposed to begin and end as a laborsaving measure for utilities. From Wordnik.com. [Greentech Media: All Content] Reference
First of all, there's a bit of the Luddite in me, a name for 19th-century workers who opposed the use of laborsaving machines. From Wordnik.com. [Stories: Local News] Reference
We can also agree that the larger the product through the employment of laborsaving methods, the better, as there will be more to be divided, but again the question of the division. From Wordnik.com. [The Class Struggle] Reference
A.L. DEAR A.L.: I suspect your grandmother was just as busy as you were when she was your age - and perhaps more so, since she probably didn't have all the laborsaving devices you have. From Wordnik.com. [Arkansas Democrat-Gazette stories] Reference
Because labor - not only in the large enterprises but also in the small and marginal - has become more expensive and capital cheaper, the economy adopts more capitalistic and laborsaving methods. From Wordnik.com. [Mises Dailies] Reference
The needle workers were opposed, as they have generally been, to any sort of laborsaving machinery, and there was no manufacturer willing to buy even one machine at the price Howe asked, three hundred dollars. From Wordnik.com. [The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest] Reference
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