Labour vs. Manpower

By Jaxson

  • Labour (noun)

    Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.

  • Labour (noun)

    That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.

  • Labour (noun)

    Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.

  • Labour (noun)

    A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.

  • Labour (noun)

    The act of a mother giving birth.

  • Labour (noun)

    The time period during which a mother gives birth.

  • Labour (noun)

    The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.

  • Labour (noun)

    An old measure of land area in Mexico and Texas, approximately 177 acres.

  • Labour (verb)

    To toil, to work.

  • 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.”

  • 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.

  • Labour (verb)

    To suffer the pangs of childbirth.

  • Labour (verb)

    To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.

  • Manpower (noun)

    The total number of all available workers; the workforce.

  • Manpower (noun)

    The power exerted by a single person (analogous to horsepower.)

Wiktionary
  • Labour (noun)

    work, especially physical work

    “manual labour”

    “the price of repairs includes labour, parts, and VAT”

  • Labour (noun)

    workers, especially manual workers, considered collectively

    “non-union casual labour”

  • Labour (noun)

    workers considered as a social class or political force

    “the labour movement”

  • Labour (noun)

    a government department concerned with a nation’s workforce

    “the Labour Secretary”

  • Labour (noun)

    the Labour Party

    “the Labour leader”

  • Labour (noun)

    the process of childbirth from the start of uterine contractions to delivery

    “a woman in labour”

  • Labour (noun)

    a group of moles

    “a labour of moles toils with the Earth”

  • Labour (verb)

    work hard; make great effort

    “they laboured from dawn to dusk”

    “she was patiently labouring over her sketchbooks”

  • Labour (verb)

    work at an unskilled manual occupation

    “he was eking out an existence by labouring”

  • Labour (verb)

    till (the ground)

    “the land belonged to him who laboured it”

  • Labour (verb)

    have difficulty in doing something despite working hard

    “United laboured against confident opponents”

  • Labour (verb)

    move or proceed with difficulty

    “they laboured up a steep, tortuous track”

  • Labour (verb)

    (of an engine) work noisily and with difficulty

    “the wheels churned, the engine labouring”

  • Labour (verb)

    (of a ship) roll or pitch heavily

    “the seas ran high, and the ship laboured hard”

  • Labour (verb)

    (of a woman in childbirth) be in labour

    “she laboured very well and comfortably because she was relaxed”

Oxford Dictionary

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