Labor

Noun

 * 1) Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
 * 2) * 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
 * ...so I set myself to enlarge my cave, and work farther into the earth; for it was a loose sandy rock, which yielded easily to the labour I bestowed on it...
 * 1)  Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labor movement, organised labor.
 * 2) The act of a mother giving birth.
 * 3) The time period during which a mother gives birth.

Related terms

 * laboratory
 * laborer
 * laborious
 * laborization

Verb

 * 1) 🇺🇸 spelling of labour; see British/Commonwealth entry for definitions, etymology, pronunciation, translations, etc.

Derived terms

 * belabor
 * labor of love

Adjectives for Labor
enormous; arduous; sedentary; colossal; persevering; unskilled; lofty; conscientious; praiseworthy; enlightened; earnest; patient; painful; fastidious; graver; uplifting; exhausting; toilsome; unceasing; intellectual; self-imposed; initiatory; faithful; incredible; useless; indefatigable; ceaseless; reproachful; assiduous; unsparing; manual; wonderful; immense; manifold; ill-paid; unimaginable; attendant; unremitting; nocturnal; incessant; endless; grievous; journalistic; intermittent; wearisome; strenuous; unrequited; exploited; loving; sleepless; sweated; diligent; untiring; confining; unceasing; steadfast; imperative; degraded; superfluous; insurgent; inconceivable; fantastic; bucolic; herculean; honorable; skilled; mighty; guiltless; daring; infinite; moderate; effective; congenial; smoke-grimed; gratuitous;  united;   earnest;   unbroken; painstaking; influential; powerful; culinary; unselfish; historical; interrupted; successive (pi); backbreaking; previous; subordinate; organized; active; unwearying; vilified; productive; tremendous; exacting; harsh; aspiring; patient; painful; tedious; ideal; untasked; convict; dreadful; rural; additional; sylvan; pleasant; astrological: oppressed; wonted; tutorial; symbolical; evasive; menial;  ever-successful;  short-lived; literary; coarse; ferocious; professional; ministerial; heartbreaking.

Verbs for Labor
absorb in—; bleed (colloq.)—; discipline—; enslave—; free from—; mar—; necessitate —; organize—; placate—; prohibit—; recompense—; recuperate from—; regulate—; reward—; stimulate—; supplement—; sur¬mount—; thrive upon—; undertake—; — profits; —reaps; —supports; —sustains.

Adverbs for Labor
systematically; incessantly; indefatigably; assiduously;  unmercifully;   industriously; vigorously; tirelessly; prodigiously; diligently; tumultuously; arduously; fastidiously; unsparingly; gratuitously; congenially; productively; exactingly; unwontedly; tutorially; symbolically; menially; ferociously; professionally.

Thesaurus
accouchement, activities, activity, affair, affairs, aim, always trot out, amplify, assignment, bag, be busy, be confined, be determined, be employed, bear, bear a child, bear young, belabor, birth, birth throes, birthing, blessed event, blunder, business, busywork, calve, careen, career, carry on business, cast, char, chare, charge, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, chore, commerce, commission, complete, concern, concernment, confinement, cultivate, delivery, detail, dirty work, do business, do chars, do the chores, donkeywork, dress, drive, drop, drudge, drudgery, duty, dwell on, dwell upon, effort, elaborate, employ, employees, employment, endeavor, endure, enlarge, enlarge upon, enter into detail, enterprise, errand, exercise, exertion, expand, fag, falter, farrow, fatigue, fawn, fish to fry, flounce, flounder, foal, follow a trade, function, genesis, give birth, giving birth, go into, grind, hammer away at, handiwork, handwork, hard work, harp on, hatching, have, have a baby, have a job, have young, having a baby, homework, industry, insist upon, interest, job, job of work, keep up, kitten, labor under, laborers, laboriousness, lamb, lick, lick of work, lie in, litter, lookout, lurch, make-work, manual labor, matter, matters in hand, mission, moil, moonlight, multiparity, nascency, nativity, occupation, odd job, overdo, overemphasize, overstress, pains, parturition, piece of work, pitch, pitch and plunge, plunge, practice a profession, project, pup, rat race, reel, resolve, rock, roll, scut work, seek, seethe, service, set up shop, slave, slavery, slogging, spadework, spell out, stagger, stay employed, stint, strain, strive, stroke, stroke of work, struggle, study, stumble, suffer, sway, sweat, sweat blood, swing, swot, task, tend, the Nativity, the stork, thing, things to do, thrash about, thresh over, throw, tiresome work, toil, toss, toss and tumble, toss and turn, totter, transact business, travail, treadmill, tug, tumble, turn a hand, undertaking, wallop, wallow, welter, whelp, work, work at, work for, work out, workers, yean

Alternative forms

 * labour

Anagrams

 * Balor
 * lobar

Noun

 * 1) work

Derived terms

 * labōrō

Descendants

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Verb

 * 1) I slip
 * 2) I glide, flow

Derived terms

 * collābor
 * lapsō
 * lāpsus
 * relābor

Descendants

 * Spanish:

Noun

 * 1) job