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| Shopping | The largest selection of LABOR products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| Sounds | ley'ber |
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| Rhymes | absorber, amber, arbor, and 69 more rhymes in ber... |
| Meaning | Productive work (especially physical work done for wages). |
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| Examples | "his labor did not require a great deal of skill" |
| Synonyms | labour, toil |
| Broader | work |
| Narrower | roping; corvee; drudgery, plodding, grind, donkeywork; effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat; hunt, hunting; hackwork; haymaking; manual labor, manual labour; overwork, overworking; slavery |
| Adjectives | laborious; laborious |
| Verbs | labor |
| Meaning | A social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages. |
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| Examples | "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field" |
| Synonyms | labour, working class, proletariat |
| Members | proletarian, prole, worker |
| Broader | class, social class, socio-economic class |
| Narrower | labor force, labor pool; lumpenproletariat; organized labor |
| Meaning | Concluding state of pregnancy. From the onset of labor to the birth of a child. |
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| Examples | "she was in labor for six hours" |
| Synonyms | parturiency, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed |
| Part of | pregnancy, gestation, maternity |
| Parts | uterine contraction; effacement; asynclitism, obliquity |
| Broader | parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing |
| Narrower | premature labor, premature labour |
| Verbs | labor |
| Meaning | An organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement. |
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| Synonyms | labor movement, trade union movement |
| Parts | union, labor union, trade union, trades union, brotherhood |
| Broader | reform movement |
| Narrower | Industrial Workers of the World, IWW, I.W.W.; unionism, trade unionism |
| Meaning | A political party formed in Great Britain in 1900. Characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and the socialization of key industries. |
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| Synonyms | Labour Party, Labour, Labor Party |
| Members | Labourite |
| Broader | party, political party |
| Meaning | The federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States. Created in 1913. |
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| Synonyms | Department of Labor, Labor Department, DoL |
| Parts | Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA |
| Broader | executive department |
| Meaning | Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted. |
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| Synonyms | undertaking, project, task |
| Broader | work |
| Narrower | cinch, breeze, picnic, snap, duck soup, child's play, pushover, walkover, piece of cake; adventure, escapade, risky venture, dangerous undertaking; assignment; baby; enterprise, endeavor, endeavour; labor of love, labour of love; marathon, endurance contest; no-brainer; proposition; tall order, large order; venture |
| Instances | Manhattan Project |
| Verbs | labor; labor |
| Meaning | Strive and make an effort to reach a goal. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE |
| Synonyms | tug, labour, push, drive |
| Similar to | push, bear on |
| Broader | fight, struggle |
| Narrower | strive, reach, strain |
| Nouns | labor; laborer |
| Meaning | Work hard. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP |
| Synonyms | labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil |
| Broader | work, do work |
| Nouns | labor; labor; laborer |
| Meaning | Undergo the efforts of childbirth. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s |
| Synonyms | labour |
| Broader | experience, receive, have, get, undergo |
| Entails | give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have |
| Nouns | labor |
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