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labour

Nouns

• (n) a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
  • there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field
  labor, proletariat, working class,
• (n) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
  • she was in labor for six hours
  childbed, confinement, lying-in, parturiency, travail, labor,
• (n) a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries British Labour Party, Labour Party, Labor,
• (n) productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
  • his labor did not require a great deal of skill
  toil, labor,

Verbs

• (v) work hard
  • She was digging away at her math homework
  • Lexicographers drudge all day long
  drudge, moil, toil, travail, fag, labor, dig, grind,
• (v) 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
  labor, tug, push, drive,
• (v) undergo the efforts of childbirth labor,

Synonyms

labor proletariat working class drudge moil toil travail fag dig grind childbed confinement lying-in parturiency tug push drive British Labour Party Labour Party

See also

plough on press on push on

Words of close approximity