labor
Sweat and strain
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 U.S. 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.
Strenuous, prolonged effort
- sweatMoisture from skin pores
- effortApplied energy toward goals
- drudgeryHard, boring work
- grindCrush into particles
strain · fatigue · backbreaking · grueling · arduous · menial · slog · hardship
Shortened word forms
- midwifeChildbirth assistance professional
- deliveryConveyance of goods
- epiduralSpinal numbing injection
- cesareanSurgical childbirth method
doula · maternity · pushing · dilation · newborn · obstetrics · prenatal · postpartum
Joining into one
- strikeForceful impact or stoppage
- collectiveJointly organized group
- solidarityUnity among allies
- picketPointed fence stake
protest · organizing · bargaining · rights · grievance · negotiation · arbitration · lockout
Paid occupation status
- occupationOne's regular paid work
- jobPaid position of employment
- workforceAll available workers
- professionTrained occupational field
livelihood · vocation · wage · workplace · career · task · manual · skilled
Industrial product creation
- factoryIndustrial production facility
- assemblyConstructing from components
- productionMaking or generating something
- workforceAll available workers
automation · machinery · mining · textiles · construction · shipbuilding · steelworks · warehouse
Venue for trade
- supplyFurnish or stock
- demandForceful request or requirement
- productivityOutput relative to input
- wagesPayment for work
unemployment · participation · shortage · surplus · statistics · force · mobility · cost
toil
Strenuous, prolonged effort
grind · strain · fatigue · backbreaking · grueling · arduous · menial · slog · hardship · exhaustion
contractions
Shortened word forms
- midwifeChildbirth assistance professional
- deliveryConveyance of goods
- epiduralSpinal numbing injection
cesarean · doula · maternity · pushing · dilation · newborn · obstetrics · prenatal · postpartum · gestation
union
Joining into one
- strikeForceful impact or stoppage
- collectiveJointly organized group
- solidarityUnity among allies
picket · protest · organizing · bargaining · rights · grievance · negotiation · arbitration · lockout · dispute
employment
Paid occupation status
- occupationOne's regular paid work
- jobPaid position of employment
- workforceAll available workers
profession · livelihood · vocation · wage · workplace · career · task · manual · skilled · unskilled
manufacturing
Industrial product creation
- factoryIndustrial production facility
- assemblyConstructing from components
- productionMaking or generating something
workforce · automation · machinery · mining · textiles · construction · shipbuilding · steelworks · warehouse · foreman
market
Venue for trade
- supplyFurnish or stock
- demandForceful request or requirement
- productivityOutput relative to input
wages · unemployment · participation · shortage · surplus · statistics · force · mobility · cost · division
- employmentjob, jobs, career, careers, interview
- resourcesresources, money, natural resources, human resources, financial resources
- workjob, 9 to 5, jobs, employee, profession
- economyGDP, money, inflation, inflation rate, GNP
- Industrial Imagerymachinery, factories, smokestacks, assembly lines, gears
- laborwork, workers, hard work, employment, effort
laborrest
Cessation of activity
inactivity · idleness · repose · relaxation · leisure
laborleisure
Free time for relaxation
play · recreation · fun · entertainment · relaxation
labormanagement
Organizing and directing resources
capital · ownership · employers · capitalists · bourgeoisie
- 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, collaboration, laborers