labour
Effort or childbirth
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.
Shortened word forms
- deliveryConveyance of goods
- dilationWidening of an opening
- epiduralSpinal numbing injection
- cesareanSurgical childbirth method
crowning · pushing · midwife · birthing · forceps · episiotomy · postpartum · afterbirth
Hard, boring work
- grindCrush into particles
- slogLaborious persistent effort
- sweatMoisture from skin pores
- strainExcessive stretching force
hardship · travail · backbreaking · grueling · exhausting · wearisome · arduous · treadmill
Vigorous physical effort
- endeavorPurposeful sustained attempt
- diligenceCareful, persistent effort
- perseveranceSustained resolve despite obstacles
- dedicationWholehearted loyalty to purpose
struggle · industry · application · tenacity · vigour · stamina · fortitude · painstaking
All available workers
- workerPerson who toils
- employeeHired organizational member
- employerOne who employs others
- hireTake on for work
job · occupation · livelihood
Skill in making objects
- artisanSkilled manual tradesperson
- handiworkHandmade work product
- carpentryWood construction trade
- potteryFired clay objects
weaving · smithing · joinery · masonry · woodworking · tailoring · ceramics · glassblowing
Manual labor workforce
- constructionProcess of building something
- carpenterTimber construction tradesperson
- plumberWater system tradesperson
- electricianWiring installation specialist
mechanic · welder · bricklayer · scaffolding · machinist · toolbelt · workbench · calluses
contractions
Shortened word forms
cesarean · crowning · pushing · midwife · birthing · forceps · episiotomy · postpartum · afterbirth · parturition
drudgery
Hard, boring work
strain · hardship · travail · backbreaking · grueling · exhausting · wearisome · arduous · treadmill · overwork
exertion
Vigorous physical effort
- endeavorPurposeful sustained attempt
- diligenceCareful, persistent effort
- perseveranceSustained resolve despite obstacles
dedication · struggle · industry · application · tenacity · vigour · stamina · fortitude · painstaking · intensive
workforce
All available workers
hire · job · occupation · livelihood
craftsmanship
Skill in making objects
pottery · weaving · smithing · joinery · masonry · woodworking · tailoring · ceramics · glassblowing · leatherworking
blue-collar
Manual labor workforce
- constructionProcess of building something
- carpenterTimber construction tradesperson
- plumberWater system tradesperson
electrician · mechanic · welder · bricklayer · scaffolding · machinist · toolbelt · workbench · calluses · digging
- Spelling Variantscolor, colour, favor, favour, honor
- spellingscolour, color, favour, favor, honour
- campagnechamp, champs, culture, grange, mouton
- British Englishaluminium, aubergine, behaviour, biscuit, bonnet
- Canadian GovernmentHouse of Commons, Senate, Prime Minister, federal government, parliamentary democracy
- political typesconservative, liberal, moderate, leftist, rightist
labourrest
Cessation of activity
leisure · relaxation · idleness · repose · ease
labourease
Lack of strain
effortlessness · facility · simplicity · breeze · cakewalk
labourmanagement
Organizing and directing resources
capital · ownership · employers · bourgeoisie · bosses
- 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
labor, elaborate, laborer, laboring, laboratory, collaborate, collaboration, laborers, collaborator