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- pronunciation:
- leI
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- parts of speech:
- noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun, verb), Word Explorer, Word Parts
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
the expenditure of physical and mental effort in the performance of work.
Clearing the land for farming required vast amounts of labor.He was tired from his labor in the fields.
- synonyms:
- effort, work
- similar words:
- action, exertion, fatigue, moil, toil, travail, working
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| definition 2: |
work performed for a wage or salary.
The chef's salary contributes most to the cost of labor in running a restaurant.- synonyms:
- employ, employment, job
- similar words:
- action, assignment, occupation, service, task, work
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| definition 3: |
the entire body of workers, esp. as distinguished from management.
The suggested compromise wasn't satisfactory to either labor or management.- synonyms:
- employees, hands, proletariat, working class
- similar words:
- laborers, work force, workers
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| definition 4: |
the physical effort, pain, or discomfort of childbirth.
Labor with her first child was much longer andharder than with her second.She went into labor two weeks before the baby was due.- synonyms:
- travail
- similar words:
- accouchement, childbirth, parturition, throe
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| related words: |
act, activity, birth, confinement, endeavor, trouble |
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| inflections: |
labors, laboring, labored |
| definition 1: |
to work hard and exhaustively; toil.
They labored on the project for weeks.- synonyms:
- grub, moil, toil, travail
- similar words:
- agonize, drudge, plod, slave, strain, sweat, trouble, tug, work, worry
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| definition 2: |
to proceed with difficulty.
The old car labored up the hill.- synonyms:
- struggle, toil
- similar words:
- plod, strain
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| definition 3: |
to suffer from a disadvantage (usu. fol. by "under").
She was laboring under the misapprehension that she was to be promoted.- similar words:
- suffer
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| definition 4: |
to be in childbirth.
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| related words: |
build, endeavor, scrape, strive, struggle, wrestle |
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| definition: |
to treat in endless or exhaustive detail.
I understand, so don't labor the point.- synonyms:
- belabor, dwell on
- similar words:
- detail, develop, elaborate, expand, expound, harp on, overdo
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