labor
labor is a 5-letter English word with 26 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- 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; as, the labor of compiling a history.
- 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 177/ acres.
- noun. To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil.
- noun. To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.
- noun. 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.
- noun. To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth.
- noun. To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
- 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 stre/uously; as, to labor a point or argument.
- transitive verb. To belabor; to beat.
- noun. productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
"his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
- noun. any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
"he prepared for great undertakings"
- noun. the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913
- noun. a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
"there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
- noun. a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries
- noun. an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement
- noun. concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
"she was in labor for six hours"
- verb. undergo the efforts of childbirth
- verb. 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!"
- verb. work hard
"She was digging away at her math homework"
"Lexicographers drudge all day long"
Synonyms
labour, toil, project, task, undertaking, dol, proletariat, childbed, confinement, parturiency, travail, drive, push, tug, dig, drudge, fag, grind, moil
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in labor:
Common word forms
labors, labored, laborer, labores, laboring, laborous, laborable, laborless
Words from these letters
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