noun
- A social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages.
- usage: "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
- synonyms: labor, working class, proletariat
- Concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child.
- usage: "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 formerly the socialization of key industries.
- synonyms: British Labour Party, Labour Party, Labor
- Productive work (especially physical work done for wages. )
- usage: "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
verb
- Work hard.
- usage: "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
- Strive and make an effort to reach a goal.
- usage: "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"
- Undergo the efforts of childbirth.
- synonyms: labor
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