Labour
British centre-left party
Labour is a slightly formal synonym for work in the sense that effort is expended.
Manual labour is physical work; skilled labour is work that requires some skill: The economy has a skilled labour shortage.
Labour characterizes work or workers generally in terms like labour union and labour statistics.
Labour is also the period of a pregnancy that immediately precedes birth.
To labour is to work.
When Labour is capitalized it may stand for Labour Party, a political party that favors workers, or Labour Day, a U.S. holiday that honors working people.
The American spelling is labor.
Joining into one
- collectiveJointly organized group
- strikeForceful impact or stoppage
- picketPointed fence stake
- disputeVerbal clash over differences
movement · solidarity · organizing · membership · negotiation · representation
Organized public voting
- governmentAuthority over a state
- votersThose who cast ballots
- oppositionActive resistance or dissent
- coalitionTemporary alliance for action
majority · parliament · Westminster · Downing · cabinet · minister · MP · candidate
Proponent of collective ownership
- progressiveFavoring reform and innovation
- center-leftMildly progressive political stance
- working-classManual laborers as group
- BlairScottish-origin surname
Corbyn · Wilson · Attlee · manifesto · backbencher · whip · constituency
union
Joining into one
- collectiveJointly organized group
- strikeForceful impact or stoppage
- picketPointed fence stake
dispute · movement · solidarity · organizing · membership · negotiation · representation
election
Organized public voting
- governmentAuthority over a state
- votersThose who cast ballots
- oppositionActive resistance or dissent
coalition · majority · parliament · Westminster · Downing · cabinet · minister · MP · candidate · campaign
socialist
Proponent of collective ownership
- progressiveFavoring reform and innovation
- center-leftMildly progressive political stance
- working-classManual laborers as group
Corbyn · Blair · Wilson · Attlee · manifesto · backbencher · whip · constituency
- Irish PoliticsSinn Fein, TD, Independents, Green Party, Irish Republic
- UK PartiesConservative Party, Tories, Green Party, Greens, UKIP
- Political PartiesRepublican Party, Democratic Party, Conservative Party, Green Party, Whig Party
- UK PoliticsHouse of Commons, House of Lords, MP, Tory, Downing Street
- left-wingprogressive, liberal, social democracy, social democrat, democratic socialism
- partisan politicsDemocrats, Republicans, party loyalty, party line, polarization
LabourConservative
Right-leaning party supporter
Tory · Conservative Party · Tories · Thatcherism · Republican
Labourcapital
Wealth used for investment
management · ownership · employers · capitalists · bourgeoisie
- manual laborWork done bodily
- compulsory laborWork required by law
- labor painsChildbirth's physical distress
- child laborMinors performing paid work
- labor protestOrganized worker demonstration
- hard laborStrenuous punitive work
labor, elaborate, laborer, labored, laboring, laboratory, collaborate, laborers, laborious