laborious
— Adjective
– English
～ characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"
laboriously
— Adverb
– English
～ in a laborious manner; "their lives were spent in committee making decisions for others to execute on the basis of data laboriously gathered for them"
laboriousness
— Noun
– English
～ the quality of requiring extended effort
laborsaving
— Adjective
– English
～ designed to replace or conserve human and especially manual labor; "laborsaving devices like washing machines"
labour
— Noun
– English
～ a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
Labour
— Noun
– English
～ a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries
labour
— Noun
– English
～ productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
labour
— Noun
– English
～ concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
labour camp
— Noun
– English
～ a penal institution for political prisoners who are used as forced labor
labour
— Verb
– English
～ 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"
labour
— Verb
– English
～ undergo the efforts of childbirth
labour
— Verb
– English
～ work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
labour-intensive
— Adjective
– English
～ requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital; "cottage industries are labor intensive"
laboured
— Adjective
– English
～ lacking natural ease; "a labored style of debating"
laboured
— Adjective
– English
～ requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading"
labourer
— Noun
– English
～ someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
labouring
— Adjective
– English
～ doing arduous or unpleasant work; "drudging peasants"; "the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton"; "toiling coal miners in the black deeps"
Labourite
— Noun
– English
～ a member of the British Labour Party
laboursaving
— Adjective
– English
～ designed to replace or conserve human and especially manual labor; "laborsaving devices like washing machines"
Labrador
— Noun
– English
～ the mainland part of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador in the eastern part of the large Labrador-Ungava Peninsula in northeastern Canada