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Noun: labour leybu(r)
Usage: Brit, Cdn (=labor)
- A social class comprising those who do manual labour or work for wages
"there is a shortage of skilled labour in this field"
- labor [US], working class, proletariat, proletariate [archaic] - Productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
"his labour did not require a great deal of skill"
- labor [US], toil - Concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
"she was in labour for six hours"
- parturiency, labor [US], confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed - An organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labour unions) or the leaders of this movement
- labor movement [US, Austral], trade union movement, labor [US], labour movement [Brit, Cdn] - Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
- undertaking, project, task, labor [US]
Verb: labour leybu(r)
Usage: Brit, Cdn (=labor)
- Strive and make an effort to reach a goal
- tug, labor [US], push, drive - Work hard
- labor [US], toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil [N. Amer] - Undergo the efforts of childbirth
- labor [US]
Noun: Labour
Usage: UK
- A political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labour's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries
- British Labour Party, Labour Party [UK], Labor [US]
Derived forms: labours, labouring, laboured See also: labourer [Brit, Cdn] Type of: birth, birthing, class, do work, 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: Labour |