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LABOUR

Definition:

[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: labor, working class, proletariat
[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, labor, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
[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
[noun] productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
Synonyms: labor, toil
[verb] work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
Synonyms: labor, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
[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, labor, push, drive
[verb] undergo the efforts of childbirth
Synonyms: labor