What is another word for labour?
Synonyms for labour
ˈleɪ bərlabour
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Princeton's WordNet
labor, labour, working class, proletariatnoun
a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
"there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
Synonyms:
labor movement, confinement, parturiency, working class, undertaking, labor, trade union movement, childbed, task, toil, proletariat, travail, lying-in, projectparturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbednoun
concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
"she was in labor for six hours"
Synonyms:
trade union movement, elbow grease, task, proletariat, travail, childbed, effort, project, labor movement, sweat, working class, toil, parturiency, labor, restriction, lying-in, confinement, exertion, undertakingBritish Labour Party, Labour Party, Labour, Labornoun
a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries
Synonyms:
trade union movement, task, proletariat, travail, childbed, project, labor movement, labour party, working class, toil, parturiency, labor, lying-in, confinement, labor party, undertakinglabor, labour, toilverb
productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
"his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
Synonyms:
labor movement, confinement, parturiency, working class, undertaking, labor, trade union movement, childbed, task, toil, proletariat, travail, lying-in, projectlabor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moilverb
work hard
"She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
Synonyms:
compass, comminute, tug, boil, roil, toil, grind, dig, craunch, drudge, moil, dig up, tire, wear out, poke, cut into, crunch, churn, cranch, jab, grasp, weary, prod, jade, tire out, wear upon, fatigue, travail, delve, get the picture, drive, hollow, stab, apprehend, outwear, comprehend, turn over, excavate, labor, mash, wear down, savvy, push, grok, wear, bray, dig out, grate, fag outtug, labor, labour, push, driveverb
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"
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fight, force back, crowd, lug, get, dig, ram, drudge, moil, press, tug, agitate, advertize, take, repel, aim, drive, promote, travail, crusade, motor, advertise, grind, bear on, repulse, labor, force, ride, push, campaign, tote, push back, toil, beat backlabor, labourverb
undergo the efforts of childbirth
Synonyms:
dig, travail, drudge, push, grind, drive, toil, tug, moil, labor
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List of paraphrases for "labour":
work, labor, working, workforce, employment, job, workers, manpower, labor-management, occupational, action, laboral, workplace, workday, pracy, labour-related, labour-capital, worker, labourers, work-related, labour-
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#77 | get | |
#125 | work | |
#246 | take | |
#288 | project | |
#422 | press | |
#429 | job | |
#473 | action | |
#528 | working | |
#737 | drive | |
#986 | advertise | |
#1022 | force | |
#1024 | employment | |
#1716 | workers | |
#1992 | effort | |
#1999 | motor | |
#2035 | task | |
#2137 | labor | |
#2171 | campaign | |
#2406 | promote | |
#2575 | fight | |
#2664 | wear | |
#2751 | aim | |
#2968 | ride | |
#3213 | ram | |
#3526 | labour | |
#3587 | push | |
#4335 | worker | |
#4490 | workplace | |
#5287 | occupational | |
#5598 | crowd | |
#5656 | workforce | |
#6587 | tire | |
#7788 | dig | |
#7800 | restriction | |
#9566 | hollow | |
#9715 | jade | |
#10055 | fatigue | |
#10647 | compass | |
#10703 | sweat | |
#11236 | undertaking | |
#12016 | tote | |
#12576 | prod | |
#13142 | grasp | |
#13468 | savvy | |
#15427 | grind | |
#15633 | boil | |
#15843 | manpower | |
#16475 | lug | |
#18225 | crusade | |
#18732 | crunch | |
#19711 | stab | |
#19799 | weary | |
#19967 | confinement | |
#20204 | mash | |
#20230 | tug | |
#20854 | poke | |
#21181 | comprehend | |
#21203 | bray | |
#25036 | drudge | |
#29951 | travail | |
#31630 | jab | |
#32581 | churn | |
#33184 | grate | |
#34141 | delve | |
#35150 | toil | |
#38020 | exertion | |
#38893 | workday | |
#39093 | labourers | |
#42537 | repel | |
#44228 | proletariat | |
#53441 | apprehend | |
#64307 | grok | |
#76481 | excavate | |
#85740 | repulse | |
#86407 | agitate | |
#93997 | advertize | |
#116906 | laboral | |
#126262 | pracy | |
#159353 | cranch | |
#162209 | outwear | |
#176771 | roil | |
#239454 | moil |
How to use labour in a sentence?
What is most beautiful in this world of ours has been created by man's labour, by his clever hands; all our thoughts and ideas spring from the process of labour, and this is something the history of art, science and technology convinces us of.
Even in the most charitable light (the Labour proposal) is going to increase risk, increase uncertainty, increase volatility and, as night follows day, (mean) higher prices for consumer.
This is tremendously damaging. The workers don't feel welcome, and they ask if they will still have a job next year. The growers are extremely concerned as to where the supply of labour is going to come from, people here don't seem to realise that pretty much every single strawberry eaten at Wimbledon will have been picked by an eastern European.
They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains.
It just seems voters, period, saying: 'A plague on both your houses', we knew that voters were unhappy with the way that the Conservatives had handled Brexit but looks as though they are also unhappy with Labour's response to the government's position on Brexit.
Translations for labour
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- عملArabic
- трудBulgarian
- porodní bolesti, dělnictvo, porod, pracovní síly, námaha, práceCzech
- llafur, gweithwyr, gwaithWelsh
- gebären, arbeiten, Arbeiter, ArbeitGerman
- εργάζομαι, εργατικό δυναμικό, εργατικοί, εργασία, ωδίνες τοκετού, δουλειά, κοπιάζω, εργατικό κόμμα, μόχθος, τοκετός, κόπος, δουλεύω, γέννα, μοχθώGreek
- trabajar, trabajadores, parto, trabajo, campesinosSpanish
- synnytys, ahertaa, raataa, aherrus, työvoima, työläisetFinnish
- travailler, travail, ouvrage, accouchementFrench
- saothar, obairIrish
- saothairScottish Gaelic
- לידהHebrew
- काम करनाHindi
- munkásság, munka, szülésHungarian
- ծննդաբերություն, երկունք, աշխատել, աշխատանքArmenian
- lavoranti, lavoratori, lavoro, lavorare, partoItalian
- 働く, 労働Japanese
- 로동, 일하다, 勞動, 노동Korean
- taimahi, whānau, taunahua, whānautangaMāori
- praca, pracować, poródPolish
- trabalhar, parto, trabalho, mão-de-obraPortuguese
- lavurRomansh
- muncă, muncitori, lucrătoriRomanian
- рабочий, труд, работать, роды, рабочий класс, трудитьсяRussian
- arbetskraft, arbete, arbetaSwedish
- కార్మికులు, శ్రమ, ప్రసవంTelugu
- کام کرناUrdu
- lao động, 勞動Vietnamese
- קימפּעטYiddish
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