LABOUR

Definition:

1. [noun] a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
   Synonyms: labor, working class, proletariat
   
   
2. [noun] concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
   Synonyms: parturiency, labor, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
   
   
3. [noun] 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 Party, Labour, Labor Party, Labor
   
   
4. [noun] productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
   Synonyms: labor, toil
   
   
5. [verb] work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
   Synonyms: labor, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
   
   
6. [verb] strive and make an effort to reach a goal; "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"
   Synonyms: tug, labor, push, drive
   
   
7. [verb] undergo the efforts of childbirth
   Synonyms: labor
   
   

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Related Words:

• strive, reach, strain
• labor force, labor pool
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• effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat
• hunt, hunting
• hackwork
• haymaking
• manual labor, manual labour
• overwork, overworking
• slavery