division of labor
noun phrase
: the breakdown of labor into its components and their distribution among different persons, groups, or machines to increase productive efficiency
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The usual division of labor had Lear as producer and writer and Yorkin as director.
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Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 29 Dec. 2025
This division of labor, investigators allege, allowed the network to operate efficiently while minimizing detection.
—Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 28 Dec. 2025
Here, Thoreau perceives the connection between the division of labor and its alienation from intellectual thought and natural processes that would become increasingly common features of working life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
—Literary Hub, 17 Dec. 2025
What was the division of labor?
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
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Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 29 Dec. 2025
This division of labor, investigators allege, allowed the network to operate efficiently while minimizing detection.
—Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 28 Dec. 2025
Here, Thoreau perceives the connection between the division of labor and its alienation from intellectual thought and natural processes that would become increasingly common features of working life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
—Literary Hub, 17 Dec. 2025
What was the division of labor?
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for division of labor
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“Division of labor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/division%20of%20labor. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.
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