1. Lacking natural ease
   "a laboured style of debating"
   - labored [US], strained 
2. Requiring or showing effort
   "the subject made for laboured reading"
   - heavy, labored [US]

1. Strive and make an effort to reach a goal
   - tug, labor [US], push, drive 
2. Work hard
   - labor [US], toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil [N. Amer] 
3. Undergo the efforts of childbirth
   - labor [US]

See also: awkward, effortful, labourer [Brit, Cdn]

Type of: do work, fight, struggle, undergo, work

Encyclopedia: Labour

• work study
• work surface
• work through
• work time
• work to rule
• work unit
• work up
• work-clothes
• work-clothing
• work-in
• work-shirt
• work-shy
• work-study program
• workable
• workaday
• workaholic
• workaholism
• workaround
• workbag
• workbasket
• workbench
• workboard
• workbook
• workbox
• workday