Definitions for labor

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labor la·bor

Spelling: [ley-ber]

IPA: /ˈleɪ bər/

Labor is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in labor (ablor).

Definitions for labor

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.

Origin of labor

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

Examples for labor

In Turkey, crime groups in border areas are exploiting the labor of Syrian male refugees who cannot find legitimate employment.

In the summer of 2014, they both were sentenced to 4-1/2 years in a labor camp.

He felt committed for labor; glad was he, very, yet perplexed.

“When you attack public sector unions now, you are attacking the heart of the U.S. labor movement,” says Dine.

All sorts of labor is got at enormous rates of compensation.

This, nothing less, is the labor to which we are called and our strength dedicated.

My field of labor was my own heart, which I endeavored to render pure in the sight of God.

Expensive day care pushes women out of the labor market while men continue to work outside the home.

I do not take what I cannot win by my own labor,' said he; 'there was a puma drove up the game for me.'

Public sector unions have also fractured the labor movement itself.