Definitions for labours

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labours la·bour

Spelling: [ley-ber]

IPA: /ˈleɪ bər/

Labours is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 203 anagrams from letters in labours (ablorsu).

Definitions for labours

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 labours

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

Examples for labours

Justice at least is due to those who have laboured without reward.

For eight years he laboured at this invention, and at last it is finished.

She had laboured incessantly to improve it, and the condition of the people who lived on it.

It would have its work done, and be free to disparage those who have laboured for it.'

Another might have laboured for a year and not achieved the half of it.

Paul laboured, striving according to the working of God in him.

It was evident that he laboured under some irresolution that he could not master.

For the accomplishment of this end, they laboured feverishly in sullen silence.

And he explained in detail the scheme upon which his wits had laboured.

He laboured to ameliorate the condition of the native Indians in the American colonies.