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Found 4 items, similar to Labor.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: labor tenaga kerja
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: labor perburuhan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: labor labor n 1: productive work (especially physical work done for wages); “his labor did not require a great deal of skill” [syn: labour, toil] 2: a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; “there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field” [syn: labour, working class, proletariat] 3: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; “she was in labor for six hours” [syn: parturiency, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed] 4: an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action especially via labor unions (especially the leaders of this movement) [syn: labor movement, trade union movement ] 5: a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and the socialization of key industries [syn: Labour Party, Labour, Labor Party] 6: the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913 [syn: Department of Labor, Labor Department, DoL] 7: any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted; “he prepared for great undertakings” [syn: undertaking, project, task] labor v 1: strive and 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” [syn: tug, labour, push, drive] 2: work hard; “She was digging away at her math homework”; “Lexicographers drudge all day long” [syn: labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil] 3: undergo the efforts of childbirth [syn: labour]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Labor Labor \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. [1913 Webster] Adam, well may we labor still to dress This garden. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] The stone that labors up the hill. --Granville. [1913 Webster] The line too labors, and the words move slow. --Pope. [1913 Webster] To cure the disorder under which he labored. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. --Matt. xi. 28 [1913 Webster] 4. To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor. [1913 Webster] 5. (Naut.) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea. --Totten. [1913 Webster] Labor \La"bor\ (l[=a]"b[~e]r), 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. [1913 Webster] God hath set Labor and rest, as day and night, to men Successive. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history. [1913 Webster] 3. That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort. [1913 Webster] Being a labor of so great a difficulty, the exact performance thereof we may rather wish than look for. --Hooker. [1913 Webster] 4. Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth. [1913 Webster] The queen's in labor, They say, in great extremity; and feared She'll with the labor end. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 5. Any pang or distress. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 6. (Naut.) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging. [1913 Webster] 7. [Sp.] A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 1771/7 acres. --Bartlett. 8. (Mining.) A stope or set of stopes. [Sp. Amer.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.] Syn: Work; toil; drudgery; task; exertion; effort; industry; painstaking. See Toll. [1913 Webster] Labor \La"bor\, v. t. [F. labourer, L. laborare.] 1. To work at; to work; to till; to cultivate by toil. [1913 Webster] The most excellent lands are lying fallow, or only labored by children. --W. Tooke. [1913 Webster] 2. To form or fabricate with toil, exertion, or care. “To labor arms for Troy.” --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 3. To prosecute, or perfect, with effort; to urge strenuously; as, to labor a point or argument. [1913 Webster] 4. To belabor; to beat. [Obs.] --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

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