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Labour (noun)
Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
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Labour (noun)
That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
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Labour (noun)
Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.
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Labour (noun)
A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
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Labour (noun)
The act of a mother giving birth.
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Labour (noun)
The time period during which a mother gives birth.
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Labour (noun)
The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
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Labour (noun)
An old measure of land area in Mexico and Texas, approximately 177 acres.
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Labour (verb)
To toil, to work.
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Labour (verb)
To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).
“I think we’ve all got the idea. There’s no need to labour the point.”
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Labour (verb)
To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one’s work under conditions which make it especially hard or wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden.
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Labour (verb)
To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
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Labour (verb)
To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
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Labor (noun)
standard spelling of from=American spelling
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Labor (verb)
standard spelling of from=American spelling
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Labour (noun)
work, especially physical work
“manual labour”
“the price of repairs includes labour, parts, and VAT”
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Labour (noun)
workers, especially manual workers, considered collectively
“non-union casual labour”
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Labour (noun)
workers considered as a social class or political force
“the labour movement”
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Labour (noun)
a government department concerned with a nation’s workforce
“the Labour Secretary”
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Labour (noun)
the Labour Party
“the Labour leader”
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Labour (noun)
the process of childbirth from the start of uterine contractions to delivery
“a woman in labour”
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Labour (noun)
a group of moles
“a labour of moles toils with the Earth”
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Labour (verb)
work hard; make great effort
“they laboured from dawn to dusk”
“she was patiently labouring over her sketchbooks”
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Labour (verb)
work at an unskilled manual occupation
“he was eking out an existence by labouring”
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Labour (verb)
till (the ground)
“the land belonged to him who laboured it”
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Labour (verb)
have difficulty in doing something despite working hard
“United laboured against confident opponents”
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Labour (verb)
move or proceed with difficulty
“they laboured up a steep, tortuous track”
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Labour (verb)
(of an engine) work noisily and with difficulty
“the wheels churned, the engine labouring”
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Labour (verb)
(of a ship) roll or pitch heavily
“the seas ran high, and the ship laboured hard”
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Labour (verb)
(of a woman in childbirth) be in labour
“she laboured very well and comfortably because she was relaxed”