laborsaving


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designed to replace or conserve human and especially manual labor

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Group-based Tai Chi training is considered a more effective and a more laborsaving method in the clinical settings, and patients tend to have a higher compliance rate in their home exercise program.
New computer-based laborsaving production technologies tend to reduce demand for less-skilled workers; technological advances and lower communication and transportation costs facilitate offshoring of work to the lowest-wage locations.
Noble has introduced a number of laborsaving devices which are revolutionizing threshing operations on his farms.
All of these were enormously beneficial: running water saved carrying pails of water from an outside pump (which my mother did in our small town in Manitoba until 1958); sewage allowed for much safer disposal of human waste; electricity led to laborsaving devices in the home, plus lighting, which made evenings much more enjoyable; and telephones dramatically increased people's access to the bigger world.
Nanoscience and nanotechnology are steering mankind into latest kingdom of competent, laborsaving and miniature tools and to be the beginning of many of the main technological innovations of this century.
CE-HPLC is not only a useful tool in screening study but also reliable and laborsaving as a diagnostic procedure.
(439) Merriam-Webster defines a "luddite" as "one of a group of early 19th century English workmen destroying laborsaving machinery as a protest; broadly: one who is opposed to esp.
Once in the kitchen, the Premier refused to be impressed by the laborsaving devices on display.
Motivation may be derived from want for efficiency, quality, laborsaving, timesaving, compliance and more recently, environmental consideration.
Such systems lack the laborsaving features and functions of a full-blown WMS (which can also handle yard management, third-party billing, and dock scheduling, for example), but provide "virtually 100 percent accurate inventory counts and get you very close to 'perfect order' on the warehousing side," Banker says.
Such systems lack the laborsaving features and functions of a full-blown WMS that can also handle yard management, third-party billing, and dock scheduling, for example, but provide "virtually 100 percent accurate inventory counts and get you very close to 'perfect order' on the warehousing side," Banker says.
At the same time that mass societal participation in the military has abated with the end of conscription, the laborsaving nature of military technologies has given the technologies themselves more ability to reach out, to discriminate, and thus to observe, coerce, and in some cases kill, a human target.
What happens is that, at some point in time, the laborsaving technology becomes adopted across an industry or service, which leads to workers becoming 'redundant' (i.e., unemployed) therefore causing the rate of profit to fall.