Labor
– definition :
– Sample : “labor”
– definition :
- (noun)
- productive work (especially physical work done for wages) (context:act)
- any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted (context:act)
- the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913 (context:group)
- a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages (context:group)
- a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor’s interests and formerly the socialization of key industries (context:group)
- an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement (context:group)
- concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child (context:state)
- (verb)
- undergo the efforts of childbirth (context:body)
- strive and make an effort to reach a goal (context:social)
- work hard (context:social)
– Sample : “labor”
- Lexicographers drudge all day long
- She is driving away at her doctoral thesis
- She tugged for years to make a decent living
- She was digging away at her math homework
- We have to push a little to make the deadline!
- he prepared for great undertakings
- his labor did not require a great deal of skill
- she was in labor for six hours
- there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field
labor