Definition: productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
Usage: his labor did not require a great deal of skill
Similar words: work
Definition: activity directed toward making or doing something
Usage: she checked several points needing further work
Synonyms: undertaking, task, labor, project
Definition: any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
Usage: he prepared for great undertakings
Similar words: work
Definition: activity directed toward making or doing something
Usage: she checked several points needing further work
Synonyms: Labor, Labor Department, DoL, Department of Labor
Definition: the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913
Similar words: executive department
Definition: a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States
Synonyms: proletariat, working class, labor, labour
Definition: a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
Usage: there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field
Similar words: social class, socio-economic class, class, stratum
Definition: people having the same social, economic, or educational status
Usage: the working class; an emerging professional class
Synonyms: Labor, Labour, Labour Party, British Labour Party
Definition: a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries
Similar words: labor party, labour party
Definition: a left-of-center political party formed to represent the interest of ordinary working people
Synonyms: trade union movement, labor, labor movement
Definition: an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement
Similar words: reform movement
Definition: a movement intended to bring about social and humanitarian reforms
Synonyms: travail, childbed, parturiency, confinement, labor, labour, lying-in
Definition: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
Usage: she was in labor for six hours
Similar words: parturition, giving birth, birth, birthing
Definition: the process of giving birth
Definition: undergo the efforts of childbirth
Similar words: undergo
Definition: pass through
Usage: The chemical undergoes a sudden change; The fluid undergoes shear; undergo a strange sensation
Synonyms: labor, labour, push, tug, drive
Definition: strive and make an effort to reach a goal
Usage: 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
Similar words: fight, struggle
Definition: make a strenuous or labored effort
Usage: She struggled for years to survive without welfare; He fought for breath
Synonyms: moil, drudge, dig, fag, grind, labor, labour, toil, travail
Definition: work hard
Usage: She was digging away at her math homework; Lexicographers drudge all day long
Definition: be employed
Usage: Is your husband working again?; My wife never worked; Do you want to work after the age of 60?; She never did any work because she inherited a lot of money; She works as a waitress to put herself through college