What is the meaning of laboring?

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"
- synonyms: tug, labor, labour, push, drive
Work hard.
- usage: "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
- synonyms: labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
Undergo the efforts of childbirth.
- synonyms: labor, labour

Doing arduous or unpleasant work.
- usage: "drudging peasants"; "the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton"; "toiling coal miners in the black deeps"
- synonyms: drudging, labouring, toiling

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