labor
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(noun) productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill" |
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Synonyms: labour, toil |
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Related Words: corvee, donkeywork, drudgery, effort, elbow grease, exertion, grind, hackwork, haymaking, hunt, hunting, manual labor, manual labour, overwork, overworking, plodding, roping, slavery, sweat, travail, work |
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(verb) work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework" |
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Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, grind, labour, moil, toil, travail |
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Related Words: do work, work |
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(noun) a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field" |
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Synonyms: labour, proletariat, working class |
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Related Words: class, labor force, labor pool, social class, socio-economic class |
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(verb) exert oneself; "She tugged for years to make a decent living" |
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Synonyms: drive, labour, push, tug |
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Related Words: fight, reach, strain, strive, struggle |
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(noun) 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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Synonyms: childbed, confinement, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail |
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Related Words: birth, birthing, giving birth, parturition |
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(noun) the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners; created in 1913 |
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Synonyms: Department of Labor, Labor Department |
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Related Words: executive department |
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(noun) 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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Synonyms: labor movement, trade union movement |
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Related Words: reform movement, trade unioniam, unionism |
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(noun) any piece of work |
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Synonyms: project, task, undertaking |
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Related Words: adventure, baby, dangerous undertaking, endeavor, endeavour, endurance contest, enterprise, escapade, labor of love, labour of love, large order, marathon, no-brainer, risky venture, tall order, venture, work |
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(noun) 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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Synonyms: Labor Party, Labour, Labour Party |
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Related Words: party, political party |
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