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Labour

 
WordNet: labour
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The noun has 3 meanings:

Meaning #1: a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
  Synonyms: labor, working class, proletariat

Meaning #2: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child
  Synonyms: parturiency, labor, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed

Meaning #3: productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
  Synonyms: labor, toil


The verb labour has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: work hard
  Synonyms: labor, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil

Meaning #2: exert oneself, make an effort to reach a goal
  Synonyms: tug, labor, push, drive


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Detail from Labor, Charles Sprague Pearce (1896).

Labour or labor may refer to:

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See also

  • Labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people
  • Labor union, an association of wage-earners meant to maintain or improve conditions of employment
  • Labour relations, the study of the relationship between management and workers
  • Workforce, the labour pool, the people working in a company, industry, nation or other group
  • Child labour, the employment of children under an age determined by law or custom
  • Unfree labour, slavery or penal labour
  • Bonded labor (debt bondage) is a system of unfree labour where a person must work to pay off a debt

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