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Discover Ludwig"manual labour" is an acceptable and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is used to refer to physical work done by someone instead of by a machine or automated processes. Example sentence: "Blue-collar workers typically perform manual labour to earn a living."
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manual labour
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Physically demanding work done by hand.
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Most guest workers perform manual labour.
Loss of skilled manual labour had contributed to this.
I'm often very fascinated by craft or manual labour.
Cultivation of sugarcane, especially its harvesting, required heavy manual labour.
In many cases, those performing hard manual labour don't fast for safety reasons.
When she returned to work she was demoted to a job involving primarily manual labour.
"There's a corresponding dwindling demand for unskilled manual labour, partly as a result of automation".
The spat ignored the fact that several EU states are in dire need of manual labour.
Her parents were still together and her father had a full-time job in manual labour.
Uzbekistan has faced sustained criticism over its use of mandatory manual labour in the cotton industry.
"When I wrote Carrie and Salem's Lot, I was one step away from manual labour".
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