[
UK
/lˈeɪbɐ/
]
[ US /ˈɫeɪbɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈɫeɪbɝ/ ]
VERB
- undergo the efforts of childbirth
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work hard
Lexicographers drudge all day long
She was digging away at her math homework -
strive and make an effort to reach a goal
We have to push a little to make the deadline!
She tugged for years to make a decent living
She is driving away at her doctoral thesis
NOUN
-
concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
she was in labor for six hours -
a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field -
productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
his labor did not require a great deal of skill
How To Use labour In A Sentence
- Labour to keep alive in your breast that spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
- Labour is naturally a bit shell-shocked finding itself out of office for the first time in 13 years. Times, Sunday Times
- The somnolent Hampden conference suddenly started to come alive as he laid into Labour as a waste of space in Westminster.
- But Labour's focus on abolishing child poverty is not, as he (deliberately) patronisingly claims, for the "aah" factor. Labourhome
- The real wage is measured along the vertical axis and labour services are measured along the horizontal axis.
- And the people who were subjected to hard yakka, slave labour if you want, or removal from islands because of drinking problems or fighting and they have complete hate and they've handed it down generationally.
- Ten years ago he was a Dundee University drop out whose career encompassed labouring, recruitment consultancy and a rock band.
- Accompanying the exclusion from the labour market has been a policy of disenfranchising the underclass from full welfare citizenship.
- In July, the project came to a standstill for nine days when workers stopped to oppose the use of non-union contract labour on the site.
- Without slave labour the plantations of sugar and cotton could not have been as rapidly developed.