[
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 is naturally a bit shell-shocked finding itself out of office for the first time in 13 years. Times, Sunday Times
- Labour to keep alive in your breast that spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
- But Labour's focus on abolishing child poverty is not, as he (deliberately) patronisingly claims, for the "aah" factor. Labourhome
- 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.
- Mr. Robert Jackson (Wantage) (Labour): Will my right honourable friend accept an invitation to visit the Rutherford Appleton laboratory in my constituency to see the new Diamond synchrotron, which is nearing completion there? PRIME SINISTER'S QUESTIONS
- The Holy Alliance was the joint labour of an unfortunate man who had suffered a terrible mental shock and who was trying to pacify his much-disturbed soul, and of an ambitious woman who after a wasted life had lost her beauty and her attraction and who satisfied her vanity and her desire for notoriety by assuming the rôle of self-appointed Messiah of a new and strange creed. The Story of Mankind
- But it's worth remembering that, barely a century ago, the great male fear was not of alpha females with intimidatingly large salaries but their polar opposite: women were seen, rather like immigrant labour now, as dangerously liable to undercut men's wages by doing the same work for less. Young women are now earning more than men – that's not sexist, just fair | Gaby Hinsliff
- The somnolent Hampden conference suddenly started to come alive as he laid into Labour as a waste of space in Westminster.
- 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.
