manual labour

Questions about manual labour

What does manual labour mean?

manual labour means "labor done with the hands".

What is another word for manual labour?

Close synonyms include manual labor. 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 labour a common word?

manual labour 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.