1. (noun)labor, labour, working class, proletariat a socialclass comprising those who do manuallabor or work for wages "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
2. (noun)parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child "she was in labor for six hours"
3. (noun)British Labour Party, Labour Party, Labour, Labor a political party formed in GreatBritain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries
4. (noun)labor, labour, toil productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
"his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
5. (verb)labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil work hard
"She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
6. (verb)tug, labor, labour, push, drive 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"
7. (verb)labor, labour undergo the efforts of childbirth