What (who) is Labor - definition
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Labor; Labor (disambiguation); Labour (disambiguation); Labors; Labours; Labored; Laboured; Laboring; Labouring
labor
I. n.
1.
Toil, work, exertion, effort, pains, drudgery.
2.
Travail, parturition, childbirth, delivery.
II. v. n.
1.
Toil, strive, drudge, work, exert one's self, take pains.
2.
Suffer, be afflicted, be distressed.
3.
Travail, be in travail, be in labor.
labor
I
n.
work
1) to do, perform labor
2) manual, physical; menial; painstaking; productive; sweated (BE), sweatshop; skilled; unskilled labor
3) a division of labor
4) (misc.) (a) division of labor; a labor of love
servitude
5) forced; hard; slave labor (he got ten years at hard labor; democratic countries forbid forced labor; slave labor has been outlawed)
work force
6) child; migrant; organized; seasonal; skilled; unskilled labor
giving birth
7) to induce labor
8) to go into labor
9) difficult, prolonged, protracted; easy; false labor
10) in labor (she was in labor for five hours)
II
v.
1) (d; intr.) to labor as (to labor as a migrant worker)
2) (d; intr.) to labor under (to labor under a misconception)
labor
see labour
Wikipedia
Labour
Labour or labor may refer to:
- Childbirth, the delivery of a baby
- Labour (human activity), or work
- Manual labour, physical work
- Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer
- Organized labour and the labour movement, consisting principally of labour unions
- The Labour Party (UK)
Pronunciation examples for Labor
1. manual labor, skilled labor.
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2. child labor, forced labor,
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3. labor.
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4. labor.
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5. labor.
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Examples of use of Labor
1. Stipulated in the regulations are the issues of principle arising in labor safety education, ensuring of labor safety facilities and labor sanitary conditions, supply of labor protection materials, guarantee of rest and leave, labor protection for the working women, labor safety rules and orders, emergency relief and aid, examination of labor accidents and supervision of labor protection.
2. Many labor advocates expect Obama‘s choice for labor secretary, Rep.
3. Labor Department investigation into alleged child labor law violations and other infractions.
4. By Israel Harel Tags: Labor party, Ehud Barak Labor is disappointed with Ehud Barak.
5. True, the Labor ministers will oppose it, but who is counting Labor ministers?