labor

Definitions

1. 1noun

   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.

2. 2noun

   Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history.

3. 3noun

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

4. 4noun

   Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.

5. 5noun

   Any pang or distress.

6. 6noun

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

7. 7noun

   A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 177/ acres.

8. 8noun

   To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil.

9. 9noun

   To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.

10. 10noun

    To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard, wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden; to be burdened; -- often with under, and formerly with of.

11. 11noun

    To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth.

12. 12noun

    To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.

13. 13transitive verb

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

14. 14transitive verb

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

15. 15transitive verb

    To prosecute, or perfect, with effort; to urge stre/uously; as, to labor a point or argument.

16. 16transitive verb

    To belabor; to beat.

17. 17noun

    productive work (especially physical work done for wages)

    "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"

    Synonyms

    labourtoil
18. 18noun

    any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted

    "he prepared for great undertakings"

    Synonyms

    projecttaskundertaking
19. 19noun

    the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913

    Synonyms

    dol
20. 20noun

    a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages

    "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"

    Synonyms

    labourproletariat
21. 21noun

    a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries

    Synonyms

    labour
22. 22noun

    an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement

23. 23noun

    concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child

    "she was in labor for six hours"

    Synonyms

    childbedconfinementlabourparturiencytravail
24. 24verb

    undergo the efforts of childbirth

    Synonyms

    labour
25. 25verb

    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!"

    Synonyms

    drivelabourpushtug
26. 26verb

    work hard

    "She was digging away at her math homework"

    "Lexicographers drudge all day long"

    Synonyms

    digdrudgefaggrindlabourmoiltoiltravail