labour
usage note For labour
Other words from labour
- an·ti·la·bour, adjective
Words Nearby labour
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How to use labour in a sentence
They were finally accepted by a labour Home Secretary, Roy Jenkins, in 1967.
The Castration of Alan Turing, Britain’s Code-Breaking WWII Hero | Clive Irving | November 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA senior labour Party MP scoffed at what he suggested was faulty logic.
Britain’s Let-Em-All-Die Policy | Nico Hines, Barbie Latza Nadeau | November 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe middle classes,” Satyarthi once told the BBC, want “cheap, docile labour.
Kailash Satyarthi, Malala's Nobel Peace Prize Co-Winner, Is Fighting India's Child Slavery Epidemic | Dilip D’Souza | October 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTYou take away Scotland, you take a major base of labour strength.
So a Scottish secession need not prevent labour from winning in a reduced UK.
Great was the surprise of Alf at the honour and labour thus thrust upon him, but he did not shrink from it.
The Giant of the North | R.M. BallantyneMichael Allcroft returned to his duties, tuned for labour, full of courage, and the spirit of enterprise and action.
Here again we have the landscape of Lorraine and the eternal and infinitely varied theme of rural labour.
Bastien Lepage | Fr. CrastreThis would reduce the available time for direct manual labour at his disposal.
Antonio Stradivari | Horace William PetherickBefore she was in labour, she brought forth; before her time came to be delivered, she brought forth a man child.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | Various
British Dictionary definitions for labour
US labor
/ (ˈleɪbə) /
productive work, esp physical toil done for wages
the people, class, or workers involved in this, esp in contrast to management, capital, etc
(as modifier): a labour dispute; labour relations
difficult or arduous work or effort
(in combination): labour-saving
a particular job or task, esp of a difficult nature
the process or effort of childbirth or the time during which this takes place
(as modifier): labour pains
labour of love something done for pleasure rather than gain
(intr) to perform labour; work
(intr; foll by for, etc) to strive or work hard (for something)
(intr usually foll by under) to be burdened (by) or be at a disadvantage (because of): to labour under a misapprehension
(intr) to make one's way with difficulty
(tr) to deal with or treat too persistently: to labour a point
(intr) (of a woman) to be in labour
(intr) (of a ship) to pitch and toss
Origin of labour
1Derived forms of labour
- labouringly or US laboringly, adverb
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