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Meaning of 'labor'
Meaning of 'labor' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Labor 
[ n.]
- Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing,
irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard,
muscular effort directed to some useful end, as agriculture,
manufactures, and like; servile toil; exertion; work. [ n.]- Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history.
- That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
- Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.
- Any pang or distress.
- The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
- A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 177/ acres.
- To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil.
- To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.
- To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard, wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden; to be burdened; -- often with under, and formerly with of.
- To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth.
- To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
2. Labor [ v. t.]
- To work at; to work; to till; to cultivate by toil. [ v. t.]- To form or fabricate with toil, exertion, or care.
- To prosecute, or perfect, with effort; to urge stre/uously; as, to labor a point or argument.
- To belabor; to beat.
Meaning of 'labor' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. labor [ n]
[ n]Meaning (1):
- any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
- any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
Example in sentence:
- he prepared for great undertakings
Meaning (2):
- productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
- productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
Example in sentence:
- his labor did not require a great deal of skill
Meaning (3):
- concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
- concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
Example in sentence:
- she was in labor for six hours
Meaning (4):
- a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
- a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
Example in sentence:
- there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field
2. labor [ v]
[ v]Meaning (5):
- strive and make an effort to reach a goal
- strive and make an effort to reach a goal
Example in sentence:
- She is driving away at her doctoral thesis;
- She tugged for years to make a decent living;
- We have to push a little to make the deadline!
Meaning (6):
- work hard
- work hard
Example in sentence:
- Lexicographers drudge all day long;
- She was digging away at her math homework
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