About The Word Labour

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Labour

Labour Meaning & Definition
Labour Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Labour?

[n] productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
[n] a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
[n] a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and the socialization of key industries
[n] concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
[v] exert oneself, 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"
[v] work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Labour: childbed | confinement | dig | drive | drudge | fag | grind | labor | labor | labor | labor | Labor Party | Labour Party | lying-in | moil | parturiency | proletariat | push | toil | toil | travail | travail | tug | working class

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See Also | asynclitism | birth | birthing | class | corvee | do work | donkeywork | drudgery | effacement | effort | elbow grease | exertion | fight | gestation | giving birth | grind | hackwork | haymaking | hunt | hunting | labor force | labor pool | Labourite | manual labor | manual labour | obliquity | overwork | overworking | parturition | party | plodding | plough on | political party | pregnancy | premature labor | premature labour | press on | prole | proletarian | push on | reach | roping | slavery | social class | socio-economic class | strain | strive | struggle | sweat | travail | uterine contraction | work | work | worker

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