Definition of labors Labors
/lejˈbɚz/ - [leyberz] -
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labours - /lˈeɪbəz/
American English
labors - /lejˈbɚz/
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- labors (Noun)
Plural of labor.
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NounPlural: labors |
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| labor - productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill" | ||
| labour, toil | ||
| work activity directed toward making or doing something; "she checked several points needing further work" | ||
| roping capturing cattle or horses with a lasso | ||
| corvee unpaid labor (as for the maintenance of roads) required by a lord of his vassals in lieu of taxes | ||
| donkeywork, drudgery, plodding, grind hard monotonous routine work | ||
| elbow grease, exertion, travail, effort, sweat use of physical or mental energy; hard work; "he got an A for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion" | ||
| hunting, hunt the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport | ||
| hackwork professional work done according to formula | ||
| haymaking cutting grass and curing it to make hay | ||
| manual labor, manual labour labor done with the hands | ||
| overwork, overworking the act of working too much or too long; "he became ill from overwork" | ||
| labor - a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field" | ||
| labour, working class, proletariat | ||
| social class, socio-economic class, stratum, class one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock) | ||
| labor force, labor pool the source of trained people from which workers can be hired | ||
| lumpenproletariat (Marxism) the unorganized lower levels of the proletariat who are not interested in revolutionary advancement | ||
| organized labor employees who are represented by a labor union | ||
| labor - any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted; "he prepared for great undertakings" | ||
| undertaking, project, task | ||
| work activity directed toward making or doing something; "she checked several points needing further work" | ||
| duck soup, piece of cake, breeze, child's play, pushover, walkover, cinch, picnic, snap a slight wind (usually refreshing); "the breeze was cooled by the lake"; "as he waited he could feel the air on his neck" | ||
| adventure, dangerous undertaking, risky venture, escapade a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful) | ||
| assignment the act of distributing something to designated places or persons; "the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum" | ||
| baby a project of personal concern to someone; "this project is his baby" | ||
| endeavor, endeavour, enterprise a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness); "he had doubts about the whole enterprise" | ||
| labor of love, labour of love productive work performed voluntarily without material reward or compensation | ||
| endurance contest, marathon any long and arduous undertaking | ||
| no-brainer anything that requires little thought | ||
| proposition a task to be dealt with; "securing adequate funding is a time-consuming proposition" | ||
| large order, tall order a formidable task or requirement; "finishing in time was a tall order but we did it" | ||
| venture any venturesome undertaking especially one with an uncertain outcome | ||
| labor - concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours" | ||
| parturiency, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed | ||
| birthing, giving birth, parturition, birth the process of giving birth | ||
| pregnancy, gestation, maternity the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus | ||
| uterine contraction a rhythmic tightening in labor of the upper uterine musculature that contracts the size of the uterus and pushes the fetus toward the birth canal | ||
| effacement withdrawing into the background; making yourself inconspicuous | ||
| premature labor, premature labour labor beginning prior to the 37th week of gestation | ||
| labor - an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement | ||
| labor movement, trade union movement | ||
| reform movement a movement intended to bring about social and humanitarian reforms | ||
| labor union, trade union, trades union, brotherhood, union the feeling that men should treat one another like brothers | ||
| i.w.w., industrial workers of the world, iww a former international labor union and radical labor movement in the United States; founded in Chicago in 1905 and dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism; its membership declined after World War I | ||
| labor - the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913 | ||
| Department of Labor, Labor Department, Labor, DoL | ||
| executive department a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States | ||
| labor - a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries | ||
| British Labour Party, Labour Party, Labour, Labor | ||
| labor party, labour party a left-of-center political party formed to represent the interest of ordinary working people | ||
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| labor - work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long" | ||
| labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil | ||
| do work, work arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion; "The stitches of the hem worked loose after she wore the skirt many times" | ||
| labor - undergo the efforts of childbirth | ||
| labour | ||
| undergo pass through; "The chemical undergoes a sudden change"; "The fluid undergoes shear"; "undergo a strange sensation" | ||
| labor - 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" | ||
| tug, labour, push, drive | ||
| fight, struggle fight against or resist strongly; "The senator said he would oppose the bill"; "Don't fight it!" | ||
| plough on, press on, push on continue moving forward | ||
| strive, reach, strain to exert much effort or energy; "straining our ears to hear" | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- labor (n.)
Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort directed to some useful end, as agriculture, manufactures, and like; servile toil; exertion; work. - labor (n.)
Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history. - labor (n.)
That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort. - labor (n.)
Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth. - labor (n.)
Any pang or distress. - labor (n.)
The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging. - labor (n.)
A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 177/ acres. - labor (n.)
To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil. - labor (n.)
To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains. - labor (n.)
To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard, wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden; to be burdened; -- often with under, and formerly with of. - labor (n.)
To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth. - labor (n.)
To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea. - labor (v. t.)
To work at; to work; to till; to cultivate by toil. - labor (v. t.)
To form or fabricate with toil, exertion, or care. - labor (v. t.)
To prosecute, or perfect, with effort; to urge stre/uously; as, to labor a point or argument. - labor (v. t.)
To belabor; to beat.
