labor
Meaning of labor
noun
- work, especially physical work.
the price of repairs includes labour, parts, and VAT
manual labour
- the Labour Party.
the Labour leader
- the process of childbirth from the start of uterine contractions to delivery.
a woman in labour
- a group of moles.
a labour of moles toils with the Earth
- work hard; make great effort.
they laboured from dawn to dusk
she was patiently labouring over her sketchbooks
- have difficulty in doing something despite working hard.
United laboured against confident opponents
- (of a woman in childbirth) be in labour.
she laboured very well and comfortably because she was relaxed
Middle English: from Old French labour (noun), labourer (verb), both from Latin labor ‘toil, trouble’.
Information about labor
- The plural form of labor is: labors.
- Languages in which labor is used:
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Catalan
GalicianHyphenation of labor
la-bor
- It consists of 2 syllables and 5 chars.
- labor is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
labor synonyms
Meaning labour:
toil, proletariat, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
Meaning parturiency:
parturiency, confinement, travail, childbed
Meaning Labour Party:
Meaning Department of Labor:
Meaning undertaking:
Meaning tug:
Meaning activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result:
Meaning a person's trade or profession:
Meaning physical or mental effort:
Meaning hard work:
Meaning work extremely hard or incessantly:
Meaning hard menial or dull work:
Meaning a vigorous or determined attempt:
Meaning a spell of difficult, tiring work or travelling:
Meaning hard work; effort:
Meaning a shoot or twig inserted into a slit on the trunk or stem of a living plant, from which it receives sap:
Meaning a paid position of regular employment:
Meaning a routine task, especially a household one:
Meaning an important assignment given to a person or group of people, typically involving travel abroad:
Meaning an instruction, command, or role given to a person or group:
Meaning a task or piece of work allocated to someone as part of a job or course of study:
Meaning the process of giving birth to a child:
Meaning the emergence of a baby or other young from the body of its mother; the start of life as a physically separate being:
Meaning the action or process of giving birth:
Meaning the action of delivering letters, parcels, or goods:
Meaning the occasion of a person's birth:
Meaning a shortening of the uterine muscles occurring at intervals before and during childbirth:
Meaning the action of giving birth to young; childbirth:
Meaning the action of giving birth to a baby:
Meaning make forceful or violent efforts to get free of restraint or constriction:
Meaning struggle or fight vigorously:
Meaning cause (someone) to work beyond their capacity or strength:
Meaning try hard to do or achieve something:
Meaning take part in a violent struggle involving the exchange of physical blows or the use of weapons:
labor antonyms
Meaning an instance or period of resting:
Meaning time when one is not working or occupied; free time:
Meaning absence of difficulty or effort:
Meaning laziness; indolence:
Meaning make or become less tense or anxious:
Meaning spend time in a relaxed, lazy manner:
Translation of labor
Anagrams of labor
Balor, bolar, boral, larbo, lobar
Words that rhyme with labor
abor, Gabor, Labor, antilabor, belabor, elabor, mislabor, nonlabor, outlabor, overlabor, prelabor, prolabor, Tabor, tabor
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