noun. Physical or mental exertion, especially when difficult or exhausting; work. synonym: work.

noun. A specific task or effort, especially a painful or arduous one.

noun. A particular form of work or method of working.

noun. Work for wages.

noun. undefined

noun. Workers considered as a group.

noun. The trade union movement, especially its officials.

noun. A political party representing workers' interests, especially in Great Britain.

noun. The process by which childbirth occurs, beginning with contractions of the uterus and ending with the expulsion of the fetus or infant and the placenta.

intransitive verb. To work; toil.

intransitive verb. To strive painstakingly.

intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To proceed with great effort; plod.

intransitive verb. To pitch and roll.

intransitive verb. To suffer from distress or a disadvantage.

intransitive verb. To undergo the labor of childbirth.

intransitive verb. To deal with in exhaustive or excessive detail; belabor.

intransitive verb. To distress; burden.

adjective. Of or relating to labor.

adjective. Of or relating to a Labor Party.

noun. A Mexican land-measure, equal to 177 acres.

noun. Work done by a human being or an animal; exertion of body or mind, or both, for the accomplishment of an end; effort made to attain useful results, in distinction from exercise for the sake of recreation or amusement.

noun. Specifically, bodily toil; physical exertion for the sake of gain or reward; the use of muscular strength for the satisfaction of wants, in distinction from purely mental exertion and from the productive use of capital.

noun. Work done or to be done; that which requires exertion or effort; a work; a performance; an achievement: as, the twelve labors of Hercules.

noun. The laboring class; productive work as represented by those devoted to it: as, the claims or rights of labor; the labor -market.

noun. The pangs and efforts of childbirth; parturition; travail.

noun. (Sp. pron. lä-bōr′ ). In the quicksilver-mines of California, any place where work has been or is going on; especially, in the plural, those parts of the mine from which ore is being extracted in some quantity; workings.

noun. Synonyms Toil, Drudgery, etc. (see work); effort, pains.

To make a physical or mental effort to accomplish some end; exert the powers of body or mind for the attainment of some result; work; strive. The word often implies painful or strenuous effort.

Specifically, to exert the muscular power of the body for the attainment of some end; engage in physical or manual toil.

To be burdened; be oppressed with difficulties; proceed or act with difficulty: used absolutely, or followed by under or (formerly) of.

To suffer the pangs of childbirth; be in travail.

To move forward heavily and with difficulty; specifically, of a ship, to roll and pitch heavily in a seaway, or in such a manner as to bring a dangerous strain upon the masts, rigging, and hull.

Synonyms To struggle, plod, drudge, slave, suffer.

To cause to work; exercise.

To work at; specifically, to till; cultivate.

To produce by labor; make or work out with effort; expend labor on; strive for.

To urge; labor with.

To beat; belabor.

transitive verb. To work at; to work; to till; to cultivate by toil.

transitive verb. To form or fabricate with toil, exertion, or care.

transitive verb. To prosecute, or perfect, with effort; to urge strenuously.

transitive verb. To belabor; to beat.

noun. Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort directed to some useful end, as agriculture, manufactures, and like; servile toil; exertion; work.

noun. Intellectual exertion; mental effort.

noun. That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.

noun. Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.

noun. Any pang or distress.

noun. The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.

noun. A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 1771/7 acres.

"A scientific and technological revolution, which continues at an accelerating pace, has already largely accomplished the substitution of knowledge for physical labor as the principal force of production, and we live in the conditions which Marx, over a century ago, saw as the final outcome of capitalist production: 'The process of production has ceased to be a process of labor…."

bureau of labor  commissioner of labor  division of labor  dry labor  elaborate  

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belabor  labor of love  

Labour Party  do work  executive department  labor party  undergo  

Aber  Baber  Haber  Labour  Sabir  

activity  age  answer  astonishment  back  

accouchement  activities  activity  affair  affairs  

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