la·bor·sav·ing

[ley-ber-sey-ving]
adjective
designed or intended to reduce or replace human labor: The dishwasher is a laborsaving device.
Also, la·bor-sav·ing.


Origin:
1765–75; labor + saving

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laborsaving

adjective
designed to replace or conserve human and especially manual labor; "laborsaving devices like washing machines" 
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Laborsaving is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
Example sentences
Laborsaving technologies and methods can increase productivity, limiting employment growth even as output increases.
Those two laborsaving devices could hardly have arisen by chance.
Laborsaving machinery and better methods of cleaning and finishing will enable fewer workers to do more work.
M any people think of automation as laborsaving technology.
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