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Sounds | ley'ber |
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Rhymes | absorber, amber, arbor, and 69 more rhymes in ber at the HyperDic website... |
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 |
Narrower | roping; corvee; drudgery, plodding, grind, donkeywork; effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat; hunt, hunting; hackwork; haymaking; manual labor, manual labour; overwork, overworking; slavery |
Broader | work |
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 |
Narrower | labor force, labor pool |
Broader | class, social class, socio-economic class |
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 |
Narrower | premature labor, premature labour |
Broader | parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing |
Verbs | labor |
Meaning | An organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action especially via labor unions (especially the leaders of this movement). |
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Synonyms | labor movement, trade union movement |
Parts | union, labor union, trade union, trades union, brotherhood |
Narrower | Industrial Workers of the World, IWW, I.W.W.; unionism, trade unionism |
Broader | reform movement |
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 |
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; Manhattan Project |
Broader | work |
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 |
Narrower | strive, reach, strain |
Broader | fight, struggle |
Similar to | push, bear on |
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; laborer; labor |
Meaning | Undergo the efforts of childbirth. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s |
Synonyms | labour |
Entails | give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have |
Broader | experience, receive, have, get, undergo |
Nouns | labor |