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- Labor-saving - a. - Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, labor-saving machinery.
- Luddite - n. - One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames.
- Labor-saving - a. - Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, labor-saving machinery.