labourer
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Once, while we were waiting around for a popular annual quiz to begin, a friend remarked that his wife was heavily pregnant; he hoped she wouldn’t go into labour over the next few hours.
From The Guardian • Jan. 28, 2020
The resulting game is the result of more than 1,600 people’s labour over seven years and will have cost hundreds of millions of pounds – enough to bankrupt almost any other developer.
From The Guardian • Oct. 24, 2018
Winston Churchill: The prime minister of the United Kingdom A "hut" in which various men and women labour over noisy machines.
From The Guardian • Jul. 5, 2013
Secondly, a number of firms have hoarded labour over the past year in the hope that business will pick up this year.
From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2010
Do not labour over an excuse, my friend.
From Senator North by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
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