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Labor   /lˈeɪbər/   Listen
Labor

noun
(Written also labour)
1.
A social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages.  Synonyms: labour, proletariat, working class.
2.
Productive work (especially physical work done for wages).  Synonyms: labour, toil.
3.
Concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child.  Synonyms: childbed, confinement, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail.
4.
An organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement.  Synonyms: labor movement, trade union movement.
5.
A political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries.  Synonyms: British Labour Party, Labour, Labour Party.
6.
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.
7.
Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted.  Synonyms: project, task, undertaking.
verb
(past & past part. labored; pres. part. laboring)  (Written also labour)
1.
Strive and make an effort to reach a goal.  Synonyms: drive, labour, push, tug.  "We have to push a little to make the deadline!" , "She is driving away at her doctoral thesis"
2.
Work hard.  Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, grind, labour, moil, toil, travail.  "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
3.
Undergo the efforts of childbirth.  Synonym: labour.



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"Labor" Quotes from Famous Books



... thoughtful. Her life had not been a very happy one. Had it not been for her intense love for music, had her heart not been bound up in her violin it would have been a sad, dull life, full of toil and wearisome labor. In after years, when the showers that fell so steadily during her younger days, cleared away, the bright, animated and merry side of her nature came out and the demure little girl became ...
— Camilla: A Tale of a Violin - Being the Artist Life of Camilla Urso • Charles Barnard

... Pakistan and about 1.2 million in Iran. Another 1 million have probably moved into and around urban areas within Afghanistan. Gross domestic product has fallen substantially over the past 18 years because of the loss of labor and capital and the disruption of trade and transport. Much of the population continues to suffer from insufficient food, clothing, housing, and medical care. Inflation remains a serious problem throughout the country, with one estimate putting the rate at 240% in Kabul in ...
— The 1998 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... they make another hawl like that well have about as much to fire at up at the front as we did back on the range. Id never seen any Fritzes so Angus an I went down to the pen this afternoon to see if they were breakin the child labor law or had any wimmin with machine guns tied to them like you ...
— "Same old Bill, eh Mable!" • Edward Streeter

... After incredible labor we succeeded, at length, in getting the longboat over the side without material accident, and into this we crowded the whole of the crew and most of the passengers. This party made off immediately, and, after undergoing much suffering, finally arrived, in safety, at Ocracoke Inlet, on ...
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 4 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe

... the cultivation of a taste for devotional reading. As a rule, those who have a taste for spiritual books and gratify that taste prosper in the Lord, while those who have no relish for such books labor at a great disadvantage. Some one has said that "he who begins a devout life without a taste for spiritual reading may consider the ordinary difficulties multiplied in his case by ten." The most spiritual men of all ages ...
— How to Live a Holy Life • C. E. Orr


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