Laboring

v. work, toil, exert oneself; work hard, struggle (especially to attain a goal); move heavily; be troubled, suffer a disadvantage; give birth; discuss or think about excessively; tire

Adjective
1. doing arduous or unpleasant work; "drudging peasants"; "the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton"; "toiling coal miners in the black deeps"
(synonym) drudging, labouring, toiling
(similar) busy

Noun
1. productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
(synonym) labour, toil
(hypernym) work
(hyponym) roping
(derivation) labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
2. a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
(synonym) labour, working class, proletariat
(hypernym) class, social class, socio-economic class
(hyponym) labor force, labor pool
(member-meronym) proletarian, prole, worker
3. concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
(synonym) parturiency, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
(hypernym) parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing
(hyponym) premature labor, premature labour
(part-holonym) pregnancy, gestation, maternity
(part-meronym) uterine contraction
(derivation) labour
4. an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action especially via labor unions (especially the leaders of this movement)
(synonym) labor movement, trade union movement
(hypernym) reform movement
(hyponym) Industrial Workers of the World, IWW, I.W.W.
(part-meronym) union, labor union, trade union, trades union, brotherhood
5. any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted; "he prepared for great undertakings"
(synonym) undertaking, project, task
(hypernym) work
(hyponym) cinch, breeze, picnic, snap, duck soup, child's play, pushover, walkover, piece of cake
(derivation) labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
Verb
1. 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"
(synonym) tug, labour, push, drive
(hypernym) fight, struggle
(hyponym) strive, reach, strain
(verb-group) push, bear on
(derivation) undertaking, project, task
2. work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
(synonym) labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
(hypernym) work, do work
(derivation) labour, toil
3. undergo the efforts of childbirth
(synonym) labour
(hypernym) experience, receive, have, get, undergo
(entail) give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have
(derivation) parturiency, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed

(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Labor
  

(a.)
That labors; performing labor; esp., performing coarse, heavy work, not requiring skill also, set apart for labor; as, laboring days.
  

(a.)
Suffering pain or grief.
  

The effect of shallow water on the sound or performance of the boat's engine. (TNDOT1)

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