manual work
Hands-on labor tasks
Manual work is labor performed with the hands or requiring physical effort rather than mental activity.
It encompasses trades like carpentry, plumbing, and masonry, as well as factory work, farming, and construction.
The term often contrasts with office or intellectual work: He preferred manual work to sitting at a desk all day.
- toilStrenuous, prolonged effort
- laborStrenuous effort; also childbirth
- sweat equityUnpaid work as investment
- taskWork to be done
- heavy liftingArduous physical or mental exertion
digging · bricklaying · cleaning · blacksmithing · blue-collar · craftsmanship · calluses · masonry · shoveling · harvesting · physical · effort · carpentry · skilled trades · forging · artisanry · embroidery · basket weaving
- laborlabor, labor union, labor force, laborers, labor movement
- hands-on learninghands-on learning, hands-on activities, model-making, learning by doing, active learning
manual workdesk work
Sedentary office labor
office work · clerical work · desk job · paperwork · creative work
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