labor
— Noun
– English
~ any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted; "he prepared for great undertakings"
labor
— Noun
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~ productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
labor agreement
— Noun
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~ contract between labor and management governing wages and benefits and working conditions
labor contract
— Noun
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~ contract between labor and management governing wages and benefits and working conditions
Labor
— Noun
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~ a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries
labor
— Noun
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~ concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
Labor
— Noun
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~ the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913
labor coach
— Noun
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~ an assistant (often the father of the soon-to-be-born child) who provides support for a woman in labor by encouraging her to use techniques learned in childbirth-preparation classes
labor
— Verb
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~ undergo the efforts of childbirth
labor
— Verb
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~ work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
labor
— Verb
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~ strive and make an effort to reach a goal; "She tugged for years to make a decent living"; "We have to push a little to make the deadline!"; "She is driving away at her doctoral thesis"
labor-intensive
— Adjective
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~ requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital; "cottage industries are labor intensive"
laboratory
— Noun
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~ a region resembling a laboratory inasmuch as it offers opportunities for observation and practice and experimentation; "the new nation is a testing ground for socioeconomic theories"; "Pakistan is a laboratory for studying the use of American troops to combat terrorism"
laboratory coat
— Noun
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~ a light coat worn to protect clothing from substances used while working in a laboratory
laboratory
— Noun
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~ a workplace for the conduct of scientific research
labored
— Adjective
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~ lacking natural ease; "a labored style of debating"
labored
— Adjective
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~ requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading"
laborer
— Noun
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~ someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
laboring
— Adjective
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~ doing arduous or unpleasant work; "drudging peasants"; "the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton"; "toiling coal miners in the black deeps"