labor🔊

Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.

That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.

Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organized labor.

A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labor.

(medicine, obstetrics) The act of a mother giving birth.

The time period during which a mother gives birth.

(nautical) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.

(historical) A traditional unit of area in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to 177.1 acres or 71.67 ha.

(uncommon, zoology) A group of moles.

To toil, to work. +

To belabor, to emphasize or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).

To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard or wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden.

To suffer the pangs of childbirth.

(nautical) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.