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labour
v. work, toil; bother, take pains; become weary, become tired; make an effort; move heavily; be delayed; make weary, make tired
 
n. work, toil; craft; entire body of workers; status of workers; work force; contractions of childbirth; childbirth (alternate spelling for labor)
 
Labour
n. Labor party, political party (alternate spelling for labor)


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Labour
See also LaborLabour may refer to:Work of any kindWage labour, in which a worker sells their labour and the employer buys itManual labour, physical work done by peopleChildbirth, especially from the start of uterine contractions to deliveryLabour (economics), one of the three main factors of productionLabour economics, the economic field, broadly conceived, encompassing study of Labour (economics)Labour Party, a political party in various countries
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Labour
Noun
1. a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and the socialization of key industries
(synonym) Labour Party, Labor Party, Labor
(hypernym) party, political party
(member-meronym) Labourite

 
labour
Noun
1. a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
(synonym) labor, working class, proletariat
(hypernym) class, social class, socio-economic class
(hyponym) labor force, labor pool
(member-meronym) proletarian, prole, worker
2. concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
(synonym) parturiency, labor, 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) labor
3. productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
(synonym) labor, toil
(hypernym) work
(hyponym) roping
(derivation) tug, labor, push, drive
Verb
1. work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
(synonym) labor, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
(hypernym) work, do work
(derivation) labor, toil
2. 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, labor, push, drive
(hypernym) fight, struggle
(hyponym) strive, reach, strain
(verb-group) push, bear on
(derivation) labor, toil
3. undergo the efforts of childbirth
(synonym) labor
(hypernym) experience, receive, have, get, undergo
(entail) give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have
(derivation) parturiency, labor, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed


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labour (m)
n. tillage, ploughing, digging

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labor
n.
1. exertion
محنت, مشقت, دقت, کشٹ, جانفشاني
2. travail
پيڑ, درد زہ, درد آبستي
3. work
کام, کاج, کار, کارج, دھندا
4. intellectual exertion
دماغي محنت
5.
مزدور پيشہ جماعت, انجمن مزدوراں, مزدور طبقہ
labor-day
کام کا دن روز مزدوري
hard labor
سخت محنت, مشکل کام کٹھن کار
labor leader
مزدور راہنما
to be in labor
ذرد زہ ميں ہونا
wages of labor
مزدوري, اجرت, محنتانہ
labor, labour
v. a.
1. work at
کام کرنا, محنت کرنا, مشقت کرنا, مزدوري کرنا, تردد کرنا, کاشت کرنا
2. urge
سعي کرنا, کوشش کرنا, جدوجہد کرنا
3. fabricate
بنانا, تعمير کرنا
labor, labour
v. n.
1. work
محنت يا مشقت کرنا
2. take pains
درد سري کرنا, دقت اٹھانا, خون جگر پينا, جان مارنا
3. suffer the pangs of child-birth
درد لگنا, درد زہ ہونا
4. (Naut.)
ہچکولے کھانا, اٹک اٹک کر يا سہج سہج چلنا

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