Definition of 'labour'
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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 - 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 - 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 Labor Party Labor - 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 - 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 - undergo the efforts of childbirth
Synonyms: labor
