Laborer

la·bor  (lbr)

n.

1.

a. Physical or mental exertion, especially when difficult or exhausting; work. See Synonyms at work.

b. Something produced by work.

2. A specific task.

3. A particular form of work or method of working: manual labor.

4. Work for wages.

5.

a. Workers considered as a group.

b. The trade union movement, especially its officials.

6. Labor A political party representing workers' interests, especially in Great Britain.

7. The process by which childbirth occurs, beginning with contractions of the uterus and ending with the expulsion of the fetus or infant and the placenta.

v. la·bored, la·bor·ing, la·bors

v.intr.

1. To work; toil: labored in the fields.

2. To strive painstakingly: labored over the needlepoint.

3.

a. To proceed with great effort; plod: labored up the hill.

b. Nautical To pitch and roll.

4. To suffer from distress or a disadvantage: labored under the misconception that others were cooperating.

5. To undergo the efforts of childbirth.

v.tr.

1. To deal with in exhaustive or excessive detail; belabor: labor a point in the argument.

2. To distress; burden: I will not labor you with trivial matters.

adj.

1. Of or relating to labor.

2. Labor Of or relating to a Labor Party.

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[Middle English, from Old French labour, from Latin labor.]

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labor·er n.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

laborer - someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor labourer, manual laborer, jack agricultural laborer, agricultural labourer - a person who tills the soil for a living bracero - a Mexican laborer who worked in the United States on farms and railroads in order to ease labor shortages during World War II cleaner - someone whose occupation is cleaning day laborer, day labourer - a laborer who works by the day; for daily wages digger - a laborer who digs dishwasher - someone who washes dishes navvy, peon, drudge, galley slave - a laborer who is obliged to do menial work gandy dancer - a laborer in a railroad maintenance gang gravedigger - a person who earns a living by digging graves hewer - a person who hews hired hand, hired man, hand - a hired laborer on a farm or ranch; "the hired hand fixed the railing"; "a ranch hand" hod carrier, hodman - a laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers gipsy, gypsy, itinerant - a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment; "itinerant traders" faller, feller, logger, lumberjack, lumberman - a person who fells trees miner, mineworker - laborer who works in a mine mule driver, mule skinner, muleteer, skinner - a worker who drives mules platelayer, tracklayer - a workman who lays and repairs railroad tracks porter - a person employed to carry luggage and supplies rail-splitter, splitter - a laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fences sawyer - one who is employed to saw wood section hand - a laborer assigned to a section gang sprayer - a worker who applies spray to a surface stacker - a laborer who builds up a stack or pile steeplejack - someone who builds or maintains very tall structures dock worker, dock-walloper, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore - a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port fireman, stoker - a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship) woodcutter - cuts down trees and chops wood as a job working man, working person, workingman, workman - an employee who performs manual or industrial labor wrecker - someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job yardman - a laborer hired to do outdoor work (such as mowing lawns)