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la·bour  (lbr)

n., v. & adj. Chiefly British

Variant of labor.

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labour or US, Austral & sometimes Canad labor

Noun

1. productive work, esp. physical work done for wages

2. the people involved in this, as opposed to management

3. the final stage of pregnancy, leading to childbirth

4. difficult work or a difficult job

Verb

1. to do physical work: the girls were labouring madly on it

2. to work hard (for something)

3. to make one's way with difficulty: she was now labouring down the return length

4. to emphasize too persistently: I have laboured the point

5. (usually foll. by under)to be at a disadvantage because of a mistake or false belief: she laboured under the illusion that I understood her [Latin labor]

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Labour of moles: a company of moles—Bk. of St. Albans, 1486.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	labour - a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field" labor, proletariat, working class social class, socio-economic class, stratum, class - people having the same social, economic, or educational status; "the working class"; "an emerging professional class" labor force, labor pool - the source of trained people from which workers can be hired lumpenproletariat - (Marxism) the unorganized lower levels of the proletariat who are not interested in revolutionary advancement organized labor - employees who are represented by a labor union prole, proletarian, worker - a member of the working class (not necessarily employed); "workers of the world--unite!"
	2.	labour - concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours" childbed, confinement, lying-in, parturiency, travail, labor uterine contraction - a rhythmic tightening in labor of the upper uterine musculature that contracts the size of the uterus and pushes the fetus toward the birth canal effacement - shortening of the uterine cervix and thinning of its walls as it is dilated during labor birthing, giving birth, parturition, birth - the process of giving birth maternity, pregnancy, gestation - the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus premature labor, premature labour - labor beginning prior to the 37th week of gestation asynclitism, obliquity - the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle
	3.	Labour - a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries British Labour Party, Labour Party, Labor labor party, labour party - a left-of-center political party formed to represent the interest of ordinary working people Labourite - a member of the British Labour Party
	4.	labour - productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill" toil, labor roping - capturing cattle or horses with a lasso work - activity directed toward making or doing something; "she checked several points needing further work" corvee - unpaid labor (as for the maintenance of roads) required by a lord of his vassals in lieu of taxes donkeywork, drudgery, plodding, grind - hard monotonous routine work elbow grease, exertion, effort, travail, sweat - use of physical or mental energy; hard work; "he got an A for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion" hunting, hunt - the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts hackwork - professional work done according to formula haymaking - cutting grass and curing it to make hay manual labor, manual labour - labor done with the hands overwork, overworking - the act of working too much or too long; "he became ill from overwork" slavery - work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay
Verb	1.	labour - work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long" drudge, moil, toil, travail, fag, labor, dig, grind do work, work - be employed; "Is your husband working again?"; "My wife never worked"; "Do you want to work after the age of 60?"; "She never did any work because she inherited a lot of money"; "She works as a waitress to put herself through college"
	2.	labour - 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" labor, tug, push, drive push, bear on - press, drive, or impel (someone) to action or completion of an action; "He pushed her to finish her doctorate" strain, strive, reach - to exert much effort or energy; "straining our ears to hear" struggle, fight - make a strenuous or labored effort; "She struggled for years to survive without welfare"; "He fought for breath"
	3.	labour - undergo the efforts of childbirth labor undergo - pass through; "The chemical undergoes a sudden change"; "The fluid undergoes shear"; "undergo a strange sensation"

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labour

noun 1. toil, effort, industry, grind (informal) pains, sweat (informal) slog (informal) exertion, drudgery, travail, donkey-work << OPPOSITE leisure

noun 2. workers, employees, workforce, labourers, hands, workmen

noun 3. work, effort, employment, toil, industry

noun 4. childbirth, birth, delivery, contractions, pains, throes, travail, labour pains, parturition

noun 5. chore, job, task, undertaking

verb 6. work, toil, strive, work hard, grind (informal) sweat (informal) slave, endeavour, plod away, drudge, travail, slog away (informal) exert yourself, peg along or away chiefly Brit. plug along or away (informal) << OPPOSITE rest

verb 7. struggle, work, strain, work hard, strive, go for it (informal) grapple, toil, make an effort, make every effort, do your best, exert yourself, work like a Trojan

verb 8. overemphasize, stress, elaborate, exaggerate, strain, dwell on, overdo, go on about, make a production (out) of (informal) make a federal case of U.S. (informal)

verb 9. (usually with under) be disadvantaged by, suffer from, be a victim of, be burdened by

Translations

Labour [ˈleɪbəʳ] n (BRIT) (POL) (also: the Labour Party) → el partido laborista, los laboristas

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labour, labor (US) [ˈleɪbəʳ] n (= task) → trabajo (= labour force); mano f de obra (= workers); trabajadores mpl;

(MED) → (dolores mpl de) parto

vi to labour (at) → trabajar (en) vt → insistir en;

hard labour → trabajos mpl forzados;

to be in labour → estar de parto

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Labour [ˈleɪbəʳ] n (Brit) (Pol) (also: the Labour Party) → le parti travailliste, les travaillistes mpl

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labour (US), labor [ˈleɪbəʳ] n (= work) → travail m (= workforce); main-d'œuvre f;

(Med) → travail, accouchement m

vi to labour (at) → travailler dur (à), peiner (sur) vt to labour a point → insister sur un point;

in labour (Med) → en travail

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labour (US) labor [ˈleɪbəʳ] n → Arbeit f (= work force); Arbeitskräfte pl;

(Med);

to be in labour → in den Wehen liegen vi to labour (at sth) → sich (mit etw) abmühen vt to labour a point → auf einem Thema herumreiten;

Labour, the Labour Party (Brit) → die Labour Party;

hard labour → Zwangsarbeit f

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Labour [ˈleɪbəʳ] n (BRIT ) (POL) (also: the Labour Party) → il partito laburista, i laburisti

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labour (US), labor [ˈleɪbəʳ] n (= task) → lavoro (= workmen); manodopera;

(MED) → travaglio del parto, doglie fpl

vi to labour (at) → lavorare duro(a);

to be in labour (MED) → avere le doglie