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Definitions for: Labor
[n] productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
[n] any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted; "he prepared for great undertakings"
[n] the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners; created in 1913
[n] a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
[n] a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and the socialization of key industries
[n] an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action especially via labor unions (especially the leaders of this movement)
[n] concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
[v] 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"
[v] work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
Webster (1913) Definition: La"bor, n. [OE. labour, OF. labour, laber, labur, F.
labeur, L. labor; cf. Gr. lamba`nein to take, Skr. labh to
get, seize.] [Written also labour.]
1. 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.
God hath set Labor and rest, as day and night, to
men Successive. --Milton.
2. Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of
compiling a history.
3. That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that
which demands effort.
Being a labor of so great a difficulty, the exact
performance thereof we may rather wish than look
for. --Hooker.
4. Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.
The queen's in labor, They say, in great extremity;
and feared She'll with the labor end. --Shak.
5. Any pang or distress. --Shak.
6. (Naut.) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results
in the straining of timbers and rigging.
7. [Sp.] A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to
an area of 1771/7 acres. --Bartlett.
Syn: Work; toil; drudgery; task; exertion; effort; industry;
painstaking. See Toll.
La"bor, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Labored; p. pr. & vb. n.
Laboring.] [OE. labouren, F. labourer, L. laborare. See
Labor, n.] [Written also labour.]
1. To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with
painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to
work; to toil.
Adam, well may we labor still to dress This garden.
--Milton.
2. To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any
design; to strive; to take pains.
3. 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.
The stone that labors up the hill. --Granville.
The line too labors,and the words move slow. --Pope.
To cure the disorder under which he labored. --Sir
W. Scott.
Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest. --Matt. xi. 28
4. To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth.
5. (Naut.) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent
sea. -- Totten.
La"bor, v. t. [F. labourer, L. laborare.]
1. To work at; to work; to till; to cultivate by toil.
The most excellent lands are lying fallow, or only
labored by children. --W. Tooke.
2. To form or fabricate with toil, exertion, or care. ``To
labor arms for Troy.'' --Dryden.
3. To prosecute, or perfect, with effort; to urge
stre?uously; as, to labor a point or argument.
4. To belabor; to beat. [Obs.] --Dryden.
La"bor, n. (Mining.)
A store or set of stopes. [Sp. Amer.]
Synonyms: childbed, confinement, Department of Labor, dig, drive, drudge, fag, grind, Labor Department, labor movement, Labor Party, labour, labour, labour, labour, Labour Party, lying-in, moil, parturiency, project, proletariat, push, task, toil, toil, trade union movement, travail, travail, tug, undertaking, working class
See Also: adventure, assignment, asynclitism, baby, birth, birthing, breeze, brotherhood, child's play, cinch, class, corvee, dangerous undertaking, do work, donkeywork, drudgery, duck soup, effacement, effort, elbow grease, endeavor, endeavour, endurance contest, enterprise, escapade, executive department, exertion, fight, gestation, giving birth, grind, hackwork, haymaking, hunt, hunting, International Workers of the World, IWW, labor force, labor of love, labor pool, labor union, labour of love, Labourite, large order, manual labor, manual labour, marathon, no-brainer, obliquity, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA, overwork, overworking, parturition, party, picnic, piece of cake, plodding, plough on, political party, pregnancy, premature labor, premature labour, press on, prole, proletarian, push on, pushover, reach, reform movement, risky venture, roping, slavery, snap, social class, socio-economic class, strain, strive, struggle, sweat, tall order, trade union, trade unioniam, trades union, travail, union, unionism, uterine contraction, venture, walkover, Woblies, work, work, worker
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