Definitions for labor of love

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

la′bor of love′(n.)

  1. work done for interest in the work itself rather than for payment.

Origin of labor of love:

1665–75; 1 Thess. 1–3

Princeton's WordNet

  1. labor of love, labour of love(noun)

    productive work performed voluntarily without material reward or compensation

Wiktionary

  1. labor of love(Noun)

    A task performed voluntarily without expectation of reimbursement; an altruistic work or undertaking.


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