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Meaning labor meaning

What does labor mean?
Definitions in simple English

labor Noun

— Labor is the work that people do, usually lifting, moving, building, etc. rather than desk work. The cost of labor is higher than the cost of building materials. — Labor are the people who do this kind of work. There's a big labor shortage in the construction industry. — Labor is the name of a big political party in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. Labor won the election.

labor Verb

— If you labor, you work hard. He labored over the food all afternoon to get ready for dinner. — If you labor the point, you keep talking about it after people understand it well.

labor

— noun (= labour) a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field — noun (= labour) productive work (especially physical work done for wages) his labor did not require a great deal of skill — verb (= tug, 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 — verb (= drudge, dig) work hard She was digging away at her math homework Lexicographers drudge all day long — verb undergo the efforts of childbirth — noun (= labour) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child she was in labor for six hours — noun an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement — noun (= undertaking) any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted he prepared for great undertakings

Labor

— noun (= Department of Labor) the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913 — noun (= Labour) a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries

Synonyms labor synonyms

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labor English » English

labour work toil effort job work hard task travail drudge trouble service childbirth parturition struggle exertion operation moil hard work employment delivery confinement grind endeavor deliverance working class push proletariat project pains manpower lying-in handling fatigue fag childbed workforce worker work force undertaking tug trade union movement striving strive slave parturiency labor movement in labor hardship give birth function

Labor English » English

Labour Party Labour Labor Department DoL Department of Labor British Labour Party labour party labor party labor

Topics labor topics

What do people use labor to talk about?
Person Life Birth

Labor and birth pains
Work and occupation Business organization

Work for someone
Person Life

Birth

Work and occupation
Work and occupation

Work
Person Healthy Symptom of disease

Pain
Person Life Birth

Unusual birth
Social behavior Social activity Social event

Ceremony
Work and occupation Work Method Work well

Work hard

Conjugation labor conjugation

How do you conjugate labor?

labor · verb

Examples labor examples

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Simple sentences

Labor is not merely a necessity but a pleasure.
Because of the increasing risk of complications the doctor decided to induce labor.
Labor created man.
It will end in a waste of labor.
The machine will save you much time and labor.
This machine saves us a lot of labor.
Management tried to appease labor by offering them a bonus.
Hard labor was beginning to tell on his health.
Efficient machinery replaced manual labor.
My daughter is in labor.
I'm not fit for physical labor.
Capital, land and labor are the three key factors of production.
He represented the labor union on the committee.
The talk between labor and management yielded no definite results.
Our competitive position is weakened by the rising labor cost.
The judge handed down a sentence of five years hard labor.
Plumbers are well paid for their labor.
Most companies have their own labor unions.
He did hard manual labor through the day.
Her kitchen is equipped with labor-saving devices.
The emerging labor shortage is viewed as a sign of economic overheating.
The Labor Party's vote increased at last year's election.
Unskilled labor is poorly paid.
The labor unions had been threatening the government with a general strike.
The woman was seven months pregnant when she went into labor.
How much did you pay for the labor on this?
Internal division within the Labor Party was one of the factors which led to its defeat at the recent election.

Movie subtitles

Love's labor lost.
THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR WISHES TO REPORT. THAT THE WORKERS OF FREEDONIA ARE DEMANDING SHORTER HOURS.
Today, the German people are spiritually and soulfully ready. to undertake their obligation in the general Labor Service.
Hail, Men of the Labor Service!
My Labor Service Men.
You represent a great idea. and we know that for millions of our national comrades. physical labor will not longer be a divisive concept.
But it will instead bind us together and, furthermore. no longer will it be the case in Germany. that physical labor will be seen as anything less. than any other work.
It would be an outrage if we were to lose. what we have fought for. with so much labor, so much worry. so much sacrifice, and so many privations.
Fifty years of hard labor at Huntsville Prison.
Men whose every day is one of life and labor uncertain. but men of strong faith in themselves. in their ships. and in the God who is on land and sea.
I won't make money out of the enforced labor and misery of others.
Those stupid devils will drink themselves into hard labor.
Sent to hard labor.
People have been famishing for labor.
He defends mercenaries, adventurers and deportees who come to Algeria to exploit native labor!
The Tribune of Labor.
If I were a People's Commissar, I'd given him the Order of the Banner of Labor.
I was in town one day with nothing to do. and joined some fool committee or other that was investigating. labor conditions in a cigarette factory.
You're here to labor.
And though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years yet is their strength then but labor and sorrow so soon passeth it away and we are gone.
If you must have it, it will be a victory of machines over unskilled slave labor.
They're leaving on Labor Day.
I've heard so much about sweatshops, and child labor, and firetraps the poor people live in, I.
First I'm gonna put through a child labor bill, then I'm gonna stamp out the sweatshops, them I'm gonna banish the tenements.
What do you know about child labor?
Child labor is just plain dynamite.
Eighteen hours ago, the Agency sent an undercover team to extract her from a labor camp in the Yunnan province.
You sure you ain't one of them labor fakes?
Capital and Labor destroy each other.
How do you feel about the labor situation?
Richard Roe, I sentence you to six years at hard labor. as prescribed by the laws of our sovereign state.
And I say that hiding a crime is being an accessory. We're talking hard labor.
And all the labor he wants, too. Half the town was thrown out of work when they closed down.

News and current affairs

Helping the poor with today's technologies, while investing in future improved technologies, is the optimum division of labor.
Mundell did not emphasize financial crises, but presumably labor mobility is more important today than ever.
Spanish workers are streaming into Romania, which until recently had been a major source of agricultural labor in Spain.
A logical corollary of the criteria set forth by Kenen and Obstfeld, and even of Mundell's labor-mobility criterion, is that currency unions cannot survive without political legitimacy, most likely involving region-wide popular elections.
The free movement of goods, labor, and capital between the two parts could have given a tremendous economic boost to Palestinian GDP.
A quarter of the labor force and half of Spain's youth are unemployed, reflecting the country's loss of competitiveness in the wake of the real-estate bubble inflated by cheap euro credit in the pre-crisis period.
A reduction in unit labor costs can also increase competitiveness only to the extent that it actually results in price reductions.
While the US Federal Reserve Board's first round of quantitative easing was effective in ending a wrenching crisis, the second round has done little to sustain meaningful recovery in the labor market and the real economy.
Ariel Sharon, who comes from a military background - he grew up in a social milieu much nearer to Labor than to Jabotinsky's ideas - is a strategic hawk.
Shimon Peres announced that Labor will offer Sharon a parliamentary safety net; there is even talk about Labor joining a national unity government.
And, with tighter labor-force attachment on the part of those who have jobs, the unemployment rate thereafter would likely be about 0.1 percentage points lower in the indefinite future.
First, the US labor market is failing so badly that expanded government spending carries no resource cost to society as a whole.
The real test for the German government is the labor market.
Irish workers are leaving in droves to Canada, Australia, and the United States. Spanish workers are streaming into Romania, which until recently had been a major source of agricultural labor in Spain.
Yet time is not the answer for economies desperately in need of the structural repairs of fiscal consolidation, private-sector deleveraging, labor-market reforms, or improved competitiveness.
The gaps in these countries' labor markets - from software specialists to physicians to home health aides - will be immense.
The weak reed in capitalism is not the labor market, but the financial market.
In this way, the proper division of labor could be established.
And now that China, too, is beginning to lose its comparative advantage in labor-intensive industries, other developing countries - especially in Africa - are set to take its place.
Indeed, the cost of labor in Africa is competitive enough that Ethiopia could attract companies from countries as poor as Bangladesh.
Africa has a surplus of agricultural labor and too few other jobs.
As foreign firms launch operations in the labor-intensive sectors in which Africa has a comparative advantage, they will train the local workforce.
His land costs are low. So are his labor costs, since he relies on family and friends to weed and pick the crop.
Concerns have been raised about the influx of cheap labor.

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