laboratory
— Noun
– English
~ 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
– English
~ a light coat worn to protect clothing from substances used while working in a laboratory
laboratory
— Noun
– English
~ a workplace for the conduct of scientific research
labored
— Adjective
– English
~ lacking natural ease; "a labored style of debating"
labored
— Adjective
– English
~ requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading"
laborer
— Noun
– English
~ someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
laboring
— Adjective
– English
~ doing arduous or unpleasant work; "drudging peasants"; "the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton"; "toiling coal miners in the black deeps"
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
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~ 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