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Labor; Labor (disambiguation); Labour (disambiguation); Labors; Labours; Labored; Laboured; Laboring; Labouring

laboured         
1.
If someone's breathing is laboured, it is slow and seems to take a lot of effort.
From his slow walk and laboured breathing, Ginny realized he was far from well.
ADJ
2.
If something such as someone's writing or speech is laboured, they have put too much effort into it so it seems awkward and unnatural.
Daniel's few encounters with Gold had been characterized by a laboured politeness.
ADJ
laboured         
(US labored)
¦ adjective
1. done with great difficulty.
2. not spontaneous or fluent.
labour         
(labours, labouring, laboured)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
Note: in AM, use 'labor'
1.
Labour is very hard work, usually physical work.
...the labour of seeding, planting and harvesting...
The chef at the barbecue looked up from his labours; he was sweating.
N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl, oft supp N
see also hard labour
2.
Someone who labours works hard using their hands.
...peasants labouring in the fields...
Her husband laboured at the plant for 17 years.
VERB: V, V
3.
If you labour to do something, you do it with difficulty.
For twenty-five years now he has laboured to build a religious community.
...a young man who's labouring under all kinds of other difficulties.
= struggle
VERB: V to-inf, V under n
4.
Labour is used to refer to the workers of a country or industry, considered as a group.
Latin America lacked skilled labour...
They were cheap labour.
N-UNCOUNT: oft supp N
5.
The work done by a group of workers or by a particular worker is referred to as their labour.
The unemployed cannot withdraw their labour-they have no power.
N-UNCOUNT: oft poss N
6.
In Britain, people use Labour to refer to the Labour Party
.
They all vote Labour.
N-PROPER-COLL
7.
A Labour politician or voter is a member of a Labour Party or votes for a Labour Party.
...a Labour MP...
Millions of Labour voters went unrepresented.
ADJ
8.
If you labour under a delusion or misapprehension, you continue to believe something which is not true.
She laboured under the illusion that I knew what I was doing...
You seem to be labouring under considerable misapprehensions.
VERB: V under n, V under n
9.
If you labour a point or an argument, you keep making the same point or saying the same thing, although it is unnecessary.
I don't want to labour the point but there it is.
VERB: V n
10.
Labour is the last stage of pregnancy, in which the baby is gradually pushed out of the womb by the mother.
I thought the pains meant I was going into labour.
N-UNCOUNT

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)
Examples of use of laboured
1. Finding out the cost with VAT was really laboured.
2. He read just a few sentences aloud, his breathing laboured.
3. He half shuts his eyelids with laboured patience.
4. Her tiny body moves up and down with each fast, laboured breath.
5. Both of his parents were opponents of Tsarist rule under which Poland then laboured.