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LABOR

Definition:

1. [noun] productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
   Synonyms: labour, toil
   
   
2. [noun] a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
   Synonyms: labour, working class, proletariat
   
   
3. [noun] concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
   Synonyms: parturiency, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
   
   
4. [noun] an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action especially via labor unions (especially the leaders of this movement)
   Synonyms: movement, trade union movement
   
   
5. [noun] a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and the socialization of key industries
   Synonyms: Labour Party, Labour, Labor Party, Labor
   
   
6. [noun] the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913
   Synonyms: Department of Labor, Labor Department, Labor, DoL
   
   
7. [noun] any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted; "he prepared for great undertakings"
   Synonyms: undertaking, project, task
   
   
8. [verb] 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"
   Synonyms: tug, labour, push, drive
   
   
9. [verb] work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
   Synonyms: labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
   
   
10. [verb] undergo the efforts of childbirth
    Synonyms: labour
    
    

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Related Words:

• strive, reach, strain
• roping
• corvee
• drudgery, plodding, grind, donkeywork
• effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat
• hunt, hunting
• hackwork
• haymaking
• manual labor, manual labour
• overwork, overworking
• slavery
• labor force, labor pool
• premature labor, premature labour
• Industrial Workers of the World, IWW, I.W.W.
• unionism, trade unionism
• cinch, breeze, picnic, snap, duck soup, child's play, pushover, walkover, piece of cake
• adventure, escapade, risky venture, dangerous undertaking
• assignment
• baby
• enterprise, endeavor, endeavour
• labor of love, labour of love
• marathon, endurance contest
• no-brainer
• proposition
• tall order, large order
• venture
• Manhattan Project

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