How to Use division of labor in a Sentence

division of labor

noun phrase

• Ever since Clarke’s exit, there’d been a clear division of labor in the band.
  — Alex Pappademas, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2023
• Trump and his lawyers have followed a strategy that involves a division of labor.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2023
• Evolution solves this problem with a division of labor between babies and adults.
  — Alison Gopnik, Scientific American, 1 May 2016
• Scientists can learn more about prehistoric social roles and division of labor between the genders.
  — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 4 May 2023
• Long before then, though, the politics of electricity had begun to establish a division of labor over control of power that endures to this day.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 14 June 2023
• What's more, the mastery of fire, the development of language, the origin of the division of labor, the beginning of social hierarchies and even the emergence of culture could be related to hunting and eating meat.
  — Katharina Menne, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2023
• Translated, open lanes of trade would speed the very division of labor so instrumental to progress and prosperity, and thus the eventual revolution as a response to all the prosperity.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• By linking objects with particular people, the technique could shed light on prehistoric social roles and division of labor between the sexes or clarify whether or not an object was even made by our species.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 4 May 2023
• Watch footage of African wild dogs hunting as a pack and you’ll be impressed by the degree of coordination, communication and division of labor among individuals.
  — Jerry A. Coyne, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
• Critics of a greater transatlantic division of labor typically rely on three arguments.
  — Emma Ashford, Foreign Affairs, 22 May 2023
• Through this division of labor, different roles in mental health care can be performed by people with different levels of training and certification, instead of relying on licensed clinicians to do it all.
  — Grace Rubenstein, STAT, 18 Jan. 2024
• Becker had a really strong conviction that the traditional division of labor and families was efficient because men could specialize in earning money and women could specialize in raising children and taking care of the family.
  — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
• Smith’s book, published in 1776, meant to oppose a prevalent economic strategy in eighteenth-century Britain—the nationalist and protectionist system of mercantilism—by explaining how free trade and the division of labor create more national wealth.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• Always, conversation flows between Gonzalez and Flores, whose division of labor appears to be split 50-50 in music making, parenting, consciousness-raising.
  — Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• The legislation would move further toward a division of labor wherein America is assisting Kyiv’s military efforts while Europe focuses on supporting Ukraine’s economy.
  — The Editors, National Review, 8 Feb. 2024
• This division of labor assumed that democracy was ascendant and that interdependence was mutually beneficial.
  — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
• Collaboratively establishing a fair division of labor, considering each partner’s needs, strengths and commitments, fosters mutual respect and understanding.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Sep 2024