manual labor

Questions about manual labor

What does manual labor mean?

manual labor means "labor done with the hands".

What is another word for manual labor?

Close synonyms include manual labour. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is manual labor a common word?

manual labor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.