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Definition of 'labour' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) labor, labour, working class, proletariat
a social class comprising those who do manual labor 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 Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries

4. (verb) 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


Definition of 'labour' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) labour
labor


Translation of 'labour' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: hard work
The building of the cathedral involved considerable labour over two centuries; People engaged in manual labour are often badly paid.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: arbeid Arabic flag Arabic: عَمَل شاق Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: труд
Brazilian flag Brazilian: trabalho Czech flag Czech: práce; dřina German flag German: die Arbeit
Danish flag Danish: arbejde Greek flag Greek: σκληρή εργασία Spanish flag Spanish: trabajo
Estonian flag Estonian: töö Farsi flag Farsi: کار شاق Finnish flag Finnish: työ
French flag French: travail Hebrew flag Hebrew: עֲבוֹדָה Hindi flag Hindi: श्रम, परिश्रम
Croatian flag Croatian: težak rad Hungarian flag Hungarian: munka Indonesian flag Indonesian: kerja keras
Icelandic flag Icelandic: (erfiðis)vinna Italian flag Italian: lavoro Japanese flag Japanese: 労働
Korean flag Korean: 노동 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: darbas, triūsas Latvian flag Latvian: [] darbs
Malay flag Malay: kerja keras Dutch flag Dutch: arbeid Norwegian flag Norwegian: kroppsarbeid
Polish flag Polish: (ciężka) praca Persian flag Persian: کار شاقه،صقيل Pashto flag Pashto: دروند كار،ستونزمنه دنده
Portuguese flag Portuguese: trabalho Romanian flag Romanian: muncă Russian flag Russian: труд
Slovak flag Slovak: práca Slovenian flag Slovenian: delo Serbian flag Serbian: težak rad
Swedish flag Swedish: arbete Thai flag Thai: แรงงาน Turkish flag Turkish: ağır iş
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 勞動 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: праця, труд Urdu flag Urdu: مشقت
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: laođộng Chinese flag Chinese: 劳动

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