Uk English Meaning of labor
Labour
Other Uk English words related to Labour
Nearest Words of labor
- labor agreement => labour agreement
- labor camp => Labour camp
- labor coach => Doula
- labor contract => Employment contract
- labor day => Labour Day
- labor department => Department of Labour
- labor force => Workforce
- labor leader => labour leader
- labor market => Labour market
- labor movement => Labour movement
Definitions and Meaning of labor in English
labor (n)
a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement
a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries
the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913
any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
labor (v)
strive and make an effort to reach a goal
work hard
undergo the efforts of childbirth
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.
Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history.
That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.
Any pang or distress.
The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 177/ acres.
To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil.
To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.
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.
To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth.
To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
A store or set of stopes.
labor (v. t.)
To work at; to work; to till; to cultivate by toil.
To form or fabricate with toil, exertion, or care.
To prosecute, or perfect, with effort; to urge stre/uously; as, to labor a point or argument.
To belabor; to beat.
FAQs About the word labor
Labour
a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages, productive work (especially physical work done for wages), concluding state of pregnancy;
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breeze,cinch,Duck soup,Kid stuff,setup,Snap,child's play
lablink => lab link, lablab purpureus => Lablab purpureus, lablab => hyacinth bean, labiums => lips, labium => lip,
