LABOR
\lˈe͡ɪbə], \lˈeɪbə], \l_ˈeɪ_b_ə]\
Definitions of LABOR
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
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a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and the socialization of key industries
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an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action especially via labor unions (especially the leaders of this movement)
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the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913
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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"
By Princeton University
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concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
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a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and the socialization of key industries
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an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action especially via labor unions (especially the leaders of this movement)
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exert oneself, 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"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history.
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That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
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Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.
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Any pang or distress.
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The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
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To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil.
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To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.
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To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth.
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To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
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To work at; to work; to till; to cultivate by toil.
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To form or fabricate with toil, exertion, or care.
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To belabor; to beat.
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A store or set of stopes.
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A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 177 acres.
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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.
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To prosecute, or perfect, with effort; to urge streuously; as, to labor a point or argument.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history.
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That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
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Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.
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Any pang or distress.
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The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
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To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil.
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To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.
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To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth.
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To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
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To work at; to work; to till; to cultivate by toil.
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To form or fabricate with toil, exertion, or care.
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To belabor; to beat.
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A store or set of stopes.
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A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 177 acres.
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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.
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To prosecute, or perfect, with effort; to urge streuously; as, to labor a point or argument.
By Noah Webster.
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The function in the female by which the product of conception is expelled from the uterus through the vagina to the outside world.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Toll or exertion, physical or mental; the whole class of workers employed in the actual production of wealth as distinguished from those who supply money or mental work; as, the relations between capital and labor are difficult to adjust; a task; effort; difficulty; pain; the act of bearing a child.
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To use muscular strength or mental effort; to toil; be hard-pressed; take pains; move slowly; pitch and roll heavily, as a ship in a storm; suffer the pains of childbirth.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Delivery, childbirth; the process of expulsion of a fetus from the uterus at the normal termination of pregnancy.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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Toil or exertion, esp. when fatiguing: work: pains: duties: a task requiring hard work: the pangs of childbirth.
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To undergo labor: to work: to take pains: to be oppressed: to move slowly: to be in travail: (naut.) to pitch and roll heavily.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To toil or cause to toil; work; roll or pitch, as a ship at sea.
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Physical or mental exertion for some end; toil; work.
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Labored.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland