Definitions for labour

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labour la·bour

Spelling: [ley-ber]

IPA: /ˈleɪ bər/

Labour is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 96 anagrams from letters in labour (abloru).

Definitions for labour

noun

1. productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
2. the body of persons engaged in such activity, especially those working for wages.
3. this body of persons considered as a class (distinguished from management and capital).
4. physical or mental work, especially of a hard or fatiguing kind; toil.
5. a job or task done or to be done.
6. the physical effort and periodic uterine contractions of childbirth.
7. the interval from the onset of these contractions to childbirth.
8. (initial capital letter). Also called Labor Department. Informal. the Department of Labor.

adjective

1. of or relating to workers, their associations, or working conditions:

verb (used with object)

1. to develop or dwell on in excessive detail:
2. to burden or tire:
3. British Dialect. to work or till (soil or the like).

verb (used without object)

1. to perform labor; exert one's powers of body or mind; work; toil.
2. to strive, as toward a goal; work hard (often followed by for):
3. to act, behave, or function at a disadvantage (usually followed by under):
4. to be in the actual process of giving birth.
5. to roll or pitch heavily, as a ship.

noun, verb (used with or without object), adjective

1. labor.

Origin of labour

1250-1300; Middle English labour Middle French Latin labōr- (stem of labor) work

Examples for labour

However: The historical record does not, it should be said, support the cataclysmic conclusion that labour could never win again.

And what the "future hope" was, he told us in the very first line of "Love's labour's Lost."

The wished time had come of rest from labour, of leisure for thought.

A senior labour Party MP scoffed at what he suggested was faulty logic.

They were finally accepted by a labour Home Secretary, Roy Jenkins, in 1967.

So a Scottish secession need not prevent labour from winning in a reduced UK.

You take away Scotland, you take a major base of labour strength.

Had you been poor, how delightful would it have been to labour for my benefactor!

Every thought was bent to attain the end, no labour was deemed to arduous.

To serve your friend would have been, I deemed, a labour of love.