labour (
http://definr.com/labour)
n 1: a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work
for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this
field" [syn:
labor,
working class,
proletariat]
2: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to
the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
[syn:
parturiency,
labor,
confinement,
lying-in,
travail,
childbed]
3: a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900;
characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and
the socialization of key industries [syn:
Labour Party,
Labour,
Labor Party,
Labor]
4: productive work (especially physical work done for wages);
"his labor did not require a great deal of skill" [syn:
labor,
toil]
v 1: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework";
"Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn:
labor,
toil,
fag,
travail,
grind,
drudge,
dig,
moil]
2: exert oneself, 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" [syn:
tug,
labor,
push,
drive]