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Noun: labor leybur
Usage: US (=labour)
- A social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
"there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
- labour [Brit, Cdn], working class, proletariat, proletariate [archaic] - Productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
"his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
- labour [Brit, Cdn], toil - Concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
"she was in labor for six hours"
- parturiency, labour [Brit, Cdn], confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed - An organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement
- labor movement [US, Austral], trade union movement, labour movement [Brit, Cdn], labour [Brit, Cdn] - Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
- undertaking, project, task, labour [Brit, Cdn]
Verb: labor leybur
Usage: US (=labour)
- Strive and make an effort to reach a goal
- tug, labour [Brit, Cdn], push, drive - Work hard
- labour [Brit, Cdn], toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil [N. Amer] - Undergo the efforts of childbirth
- labour [Brit, Cdn]
Noun: Labor
Usage: US
- The federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913
- Department of Labor, Labor Department, DoL - 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 [UK], Labour [UK]
Derived forms: labors, Labors, laboring, labored See also: laborer [US], laborious Type of: birth, birthing, class, do work, executive department, fight, giving birth, labor party, labour party, parturition, reform movement, social class, socio-economic class, stratum, struggle, undergo, work Part of: gestation, maternity, pregnancy Encyclopedia: Labor Labor, Slovenia Labor, induced |