Labour and Need

Labour

Labour noun - Productive work (especially physical work done for wages).

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Need and labour are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Need" instead the word "Labour" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: labor, labored, laboured, laborer, labourer

Need noun - A state of being without something necessary, desirable, or useful.

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Labour and need are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Labour" instead the word "Need" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: needed, needs, needy, needless, needful

human	human labour	human need
physical	physical labour	physical need
low	low labour	low need
actual	actual labour	actual need
Other adjectives: great, social.

This is not so much out of compassion but rather that they still need a cheap labour force to do the heavy work for them.

Source: Recap / Doctor Who S10 E4 "Planet of the Daleks"
Throughout the pre-1950s world, fair and un-calloused skin was a sign of having the money not to need to do outdoor work or manual labour.

Source: But Not Too White
Religious Robot: The Electric Monks, which were designed as a labour-saving device that would believe things so that their owners didn't need to; a malfunctioning one ends up involved in the plot.

Source: Literature / Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

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