labor | ||
1. | [ noun ] (work) productive work (especially physical work done for wages) | |
Synonyms: | toil labour | |
Examples: | "his labor did not require a great deal of skill" |
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Related terms: | work effort drudgery manual_labor hunt hackwork overwork haymaking corvee slavery roping | |
2. | [ noun ] (work,sociology) a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages | |
Synonyms: | labour proletariat working_class | |
Examples: | "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field" |
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Related terms: | class labor_force prole | |
3. | [ verb ] exert oneself, make an effort to reach a goal | |
Synonyms: | push drive labour tug | |
Examples: | "She tugged for years to make a decent living" "We have to push a little to make the deadline!" "She is driving away at her doctoral thesis" |
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Related terms: | fight strive press_on push undertaking campaign laborer | |
4. | [ verb ] (work) work hard | |
Synonyms: | toil grind moil travail drudge dig fag labour | |
Examples: | "She was digging away at her math homework" "Lexicographers drudge all day long" |
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Related terms: | work undertaking effort laborer drudgery drudge swot | |
5. | [ verb ] undergo the efforts of childbirth | |
Synonyms: | labour | |
Related terms: | experience give_birth | |
6. | [ noun ] (politics) a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and the socialization of key industries | |
Synonyms: | Labour Labor_Party Labour_Party | |
Related terms: | party Labourite | |
7. | [ noun ] (work,politics) an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action especially via labor unions (especially the leaders of this movement) | |
Synonyms: | labor_movement trade_union_movement | |
Related terms: | reform_movement unionism international_workers_of_the_world union | |
8. | [ noun ] (biology,obstetrics) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child | |
Synonyms: | confinement labour lying-in travail childbed parturiency | |
Examples: | "she was in labor for six hours" |
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Related terms: | parturition premature_labor pregnancy effacement asynclitism uterine_contraction | |
9. | [ noun ] (work,government) the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913 | |
Synonyms: | Department_of_Labor dol Labor_Department | |
Related terms: | executive_department occupational_safety_and_health_act | |
10. | [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 30127 | |
11. | [ noun ] any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted | |
Synonyms: | project task undertaking | |
Examples: | "he prepared for great undertakings" |
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Related terms: | work adventure enterprise venture cinch baby marathon tall_order no-brainer assignment proposition breeze labor_of_love manhattan_project plan undertake | |
Similar spelling: |
Labore Lauber labour layover laver Laber Labar Lavery Lavere Lavera Labrie Labree Labarr Lawver Lauver Laufer Lapier laffer Labarre |