Definition of labour Labour
/lejˈbawˌɹ/ - [leybawr] - la•bour
We found 19 definitions of labour from 7 different sources.
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British English
labour - /lˈeɪbɐ/
American English
labor - /lejˈbɚ/
What does labour mean?
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| labour - productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill" | ||
| labor, 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" | ||
| labour - concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours" | ||
| parturiency, labor, 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 | ||
| labour - a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field" | ||
| labor, 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 | ||
| labour - 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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| labour - work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long" | ||
| labor, 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" | ||
| labour - 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, labor, 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" | ||
| labour - undergo the efforts of childbirth | ||
| labor | ||
| birth, give birth, deliver, bear, have cause to be born; "My wife had twins yesterday!" | ||
| undergo pass through; "The chemical undergoes a sudden change"; "The fluid undergoes shear"; "undergo a strange sensation" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- labour (Noun)
Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work. - labour (Noun)
Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour. - labour (Noun)
A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour. - labour (Noun)
The act of a mother giving birth. - labour (Noun)
The time period during which a mother gives birth. - labour (Verb)
To toil, to work. - labour (Verb)
To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon a point in a debate, etc.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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labour
lā′bur, n. toil or exertion, esp. when fatiguing: work: pains: duties: a task requiring hard work: the pangs of childbirth.—v.i. to undergo labour: to work: to take pains: to be oppressed: to move slowly: to be in travail: (naut.) to pitch and roll heavily.—adj. Labō′rious, full of labour: toilsome: wearisome: devoted to labour: industrious.—adv. Labō′riously.—n. Labō′riousness.—adj. Lā′boured, bearing marks of labour or effort in the execution.—ns. Lā′bourer, one who labours: one who does work requiring little skill; Lā′bourist, one who contends for the interests of workmen.—adjs. Lā′bour-sav′ing, intended to supersede or lessen the labour of men; Lā′boursome (Shak.), made with labour and diligence.—Labour Day, a legal holiday in some parts of the United States, as in New York (the first Monday in September); Labour market, the supply of unemployed labour in relation to the demand for it; Labour of love, work undertaken merely as an act of friendliness, and without hope of emolument; Labour with, to take pains to convince.—Hard labour, compulsory work imposed on certain criminals in addition to imprisonment. [O. Fr. labour, labeur—L. labor.]
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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labour
In the relative mechanical efforts of the human body labouring in various posture, 682-1/3 have been given for the rowing effort, 476 for the effort at a winch, and 209-1/3 for the effort at a pump.
Proverbs DictionaryProverbs Dictionary 📗
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labour
Labour warms, sloth harms.
Wikipedia 
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economics
In classical economics and all microeconomics labour (or labor) is a measure of the work done by human beings and is one of three factors of production, the others being land and capital. There are macroeconomic system theories which have created a concept called human capital (referring to the skills that workers possess, not necessarily their actual work), although there are also theories that think human capital is a contradiction in terms.
Compensation and measurement.
Wage is a basic compensation for labour.
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