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- productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
- a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
- a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor''s interests and the socialization of key industries
- concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
- undergo the efforts of childbirth
- 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"
- work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
Similar Words: labor,
toil,
working class,
proletariat,
Labour Party,
Labour,
Labor Party,
Labor,
parturiency,
confinement,
lying-in,
travail,
childbed,
tug,
push,
drive,
fag,
grind,
drudge,
dig,
moil
See Also: press on,
push on,
plough on
Hyponyms: roping,
corvee,
drudgery,
plodding,
grind,
donkeywork,
effort,
elbow grease,
exertion,
travail,
sweat,
hunt,
hunting,
hackwork,
haymaking,
manual labor,
manual labour,
overwork,
overworking,
slavery,
labor force,
labor pool,
premature labor,
premature labour,
strive,
reach,
strain
Grouped Verbs: push,
bear on
Entailments: give birth,
deliver,
bear,
birth,
have
Part Meronyms: pregnancy,
gestation,
maternity
Derivational Morphology:
labor,
toil,
fag,
travail,
grind,
drudge,
dig,
moil,
tug,
push,
drive,
parturiency,
confinement,
lying-in,
childbed,
campaign,
cause,
crusade,
movement,
effort,
energy,
get-up-and-go,
undertaking,
project,
task,
laborer,
manual laborer,
labourer,
jack,
peon,
navvy,
galley slave,
hack,
hacker,
drudgery,
plodding,
donkeywork,
swot,
nerd,
wonk,
dweeb,
elbow grease,
exertion,
sweat,
toiler
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