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labor

English

  1. 🔊 productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
    “his labor did not require a great deal of skill”
  2. 🔊 a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
    “there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field”
  3. 🔊 concluding state of pregnancy
    “she was in labor for six hours”
  4. 🔊 the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States
  5. 🔊 an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement
  6. 🔊 any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
    “he prepared for great undertakings”
  7. 🔊 a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900
  8. 🔊 undergo the efforts of childbirth
  9. 🔊 work hard
    “She was digging away at her math homework”
  10. 🔊 strive and make an effort to reach a goal
    “She tugged for years to make a decent living”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 labor labor
  2. 🔊 laboral labor
  3. 🔊 faenar to labor, toil
  4. 🔊 laborar to labor, work
  5. 🔊 mano de obra labor, labor force, workforce

Similar words

labour toil undertaking project task department of labor labor department dol labour working class proletariat british labour party labour party labour labor movement trade union movement parturiency labour confinement lying-in travail childbed labour tug