labor

Plural: labors

Noun

• a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
  • "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
• productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
  • "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
• concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
  • "she was in labor for six hours"
• an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement
• a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries
• the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913
• any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
• Alternative spelling of labour.

Verb

Verb Forms: labored, laboring, labors

• To work hard or exert great effort.
• strive and make an effort to reach a goal
• work hard
• undergo the efforts of childbirth
• US standard spelling of labour.

Examples

• She had to LABOR over her rack for ages to find a viable word in Scrabble.

Synonyms

British Labour Party, childbed, confinement, Department of Labor, dig, DoL, drive, drudge, fag, grind, Labor Department, labor movement, Labour, labour, Labour Party, lying-in, moil, parturiency, project, proletariat, push, task, toil, trade union movement, travail, tug, undertaking, working class

Related Words

laboral, laborious

Anagrams of labor