Labor
British political party
Labor is a slightly formal synonym for work in the sense that effort is expended.
Manual labor is physical work; skilled labor is work that requires some skill: The economy has a skilled labor shortage.
Labor characterizes work or workers generally in terms like labor union and labor statistics.
Labor is also the period of a pregnancy that immediately precedes birth.
To labor is to work.
When Labor is capitalized it may stand for Labor Party, a political party that favors workers, or Labor Day, a U.S. holiday that honors working people.
The British spelling is labour.
From the southern continent
- BritishOf the United Kingdom
- oppositionActive resistance or dissent
- coalitionTemporary alliance for action
- parliamentNational legislative assembly
election · manifesto · candidate · socialist · leftist · Tory · Conservative · victory
Australian
From the southern continent
- BritishOf the United Kingdom
- oppositionActive resistance or dissent
- coalitionTemporary alliance for action
parliament · election · manifesto · candidate · socialist · leftist · Tory · Conservative · victory · defeat
September
Year's ninth month
parade · barbecue · picnic · summer · celebration · American · workers
Laborrest
Cessation of activity
relaxation · repose · idleness · inactivity · dormancy
LaborConservative
Right-leaning party supporter
Tory · Conservative Party · Liberal · right-wing · Liberal Party
- manual laborWork done bodily
- compulsory laborWork required by law
- labor painsChildbirth's physical distress
- day labourersWorkers hired temporarily
- child laborMinors performing paid work
- labor protestOrganized worker demonstration
elaborate, laborer, labored, laboring, labour, laboratory, collaborate, laborers, laborious