labour - Definition | Dictionary definition of labour

Definition of labour

Nouns

a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages

Synonyms:: labor, proletariat, working class

Types:: labor force, labor pool
the source of trained people from which workers can be hired; lumpenproletariat
(Marxism) the unorganized lower levels of the proletariat who are not interested in revolutionary advancement; organized labor
employees who are represented by a labor union

Type of:: class, social class, socio-economic class, stratum
people having the same social, economic, or educational status

concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child

Synonyms:: childbed, confinement, labor, lying-in, parturiency, travail

Types:: premature labor, premature labour
labor beginning prior to the 37th week of gestation

Type of:: birth, birthing, giving birth, parturition
the process of giving birth

productive work (especially physical work done for wages)

Synonyms:: labor, toil

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capturing cattle or horses with a lasso; calf roping
capturing a calf with a lasso and binding its feet; steer roping
capturing a steer with a lasso; corvee
unpaid labor (as for the maintenance of roads) required by a lord of his vassals in lieu of taxes; donkeywork, drudgery, grind, plodding
hard monotonous routine work; effort, elbow grease, exertion, sweat, travail
use of physical or mental energy; hard work; struggle
strenuous effort; difficulty, trouble
an effort that is inconvenient; least effort, least resistance
the least effortful way to do something; strain, straining
an intense or violent exertion; exercise, exercising, physical exercise, physical exertion, workout
the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit; pull
a sustained effort; application, diligence
a diligent effort; overkill
any effort that seems to go farther than would be necessary to achieve its goal; supererogation
an effort above and beyond the call of duty; overexertion
excessive exertion; so much exertion that discomfort or injury results; detrition, friction, rubbing
effort expended in moving one object over another with pressure; hunt, hunting
the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts; canned hunt
a hunt for animals that have been raised on game ranches until they are mature enough to be killed for trophy collections; stalk, stalking, still hunt
a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush; birdnesting
hunting for birds' nests to get the eggs; predation
the act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey; hackwork
professional work done according to formula; haymaking
cutting grass and curing it to make hay; manual labor, manual labour
labor done with the hands; application, coating, covering
the work of applying something; bodywork
the work of making or repairing vehicle bodies; handling
manual (or mechanical) carrying or moving or delivering or working with something; picking
the act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.); planking
the work of covering an area with planks; wiring
the work of installing the wires for an electrical system or device; overwork, overworking
the act of working too much or too long; slavery
work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay