"labour-saving" meaning in English

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      "form": "most labour-saving",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1904, Carolyn Wells, “Shopping”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 63:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1906, Edwin A. Pratt, chapter 10, in The Transition in Agriculture, London: John Murray, page 116:",
          "text": "[…] 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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory, Penguin, published 2008, page 97:",
          "text": "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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        "Alternative form of labor-saving."
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  "word": "labour-saving"
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    {
      "form": "more labour-saving",
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    {
      "form": "most labour-saving",
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        "superlative"
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        },
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          "ref": "1906, Edwin A. Pratt, chapter 10, in The Transition in Agriculture, London: John Murray, page 116:",
          "text": "[…] 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.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2007, Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory, Penguin, published 2008, page 97:",
          "text": "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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