Synonym: effort, employment, industry, task, toil, work. Antonym: relax, rest. Similar words: elaborate, laboratory, laboriously, collaboration, abortion, lab, label, suborn. Meaning: [ˈleɪbə(r)] 
n. 1. productive work (especially physical work done for wages) 2. a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages 3. concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child 4. an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement 5. a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and the socialization of key industries 6. the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913 7. any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted. v. 1. strive and make an effort to reach a goal 2. work hard 3. undergo the efforts of childbirth.
n. 1. productive work (especially physical work done for wages) 2. a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages 3. concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child 4. an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement 5. a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and the socialization of key industries 6. the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913 7. any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted. v. 1. strive and make an effort to reach a goal 2. work hard 3. undergo the efforts of childbirth. 
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61. When her labor was difficult, the doula consistently remained calm and caring.
62. To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor. Edward Gibbon 
63. Millions of others died in incredibly harsh conditions in hundreds of labor camps.
64. Labor shortages were not going to be driving up wages for a long time to come.
65. Ultimately, they were assured of a cheap and exploitable labor force through the constant turnover of young, female employees.
66. Guys who labor in anonymity for no return but fulfillment of their desire to help another.
67. The divorce between labor and capital that has occurred in the developed world has not come to pass in the developing countries.
68. Senior Labor politician Tony Benn has been publishing diary installments for decades[sentencedict.com/labor.html], providing a vivid account of Parliament.
69. And workers' compensation payments to professional athletes would be offset by any payments available under a labor contract.
70. The labor was eased by a four-wheel-drive pickup truck, several hammers and a sagging wheelbarrow.
71. At first capital only gained advantage in relation to labor and may even have lost some ground to the state.
72. It saved labor, the very thing we are now appropriating money to get a job for.
73. Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. Victor Hugo
74. Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. Thomas Jefferson
75. Instead, this money is being sent abroad to create jobs in nations that use low-cost labor.
76. Labor market growth averaged 140, 000 during the first 11 months of last year.
77. Even when the economy in the Midwest came back in the late eighties, labor was still flat on its back.
78. When the labor necessary to complete a task or make a product is divided into specific, distinct operations, productivity soars.
79. Labor activists say that although there are no legal age cutoffs, the industries prefer to hire young and malleable workers.
80. With the smoothest stroke in the game and his newborn baby at home, this was easy labor for Tim Legler.
81. In this context, apprentices offer a cheap source of labor.
82. He proposes unspecified tariffs on imports from Third-World nations that depend on cheap labor.
83. So if you are a Democratic Party dependent on labor votes, cutting government services is not exactly popular.
84. Meanwhile, organized labor and the thousands of new patronage jobs in the federal bureaucracy gave the president powerful political leverage.
85. The Labor Department will release delayed December employment data tomorrow morning.
86. I felt bad about David, whose roots are in labor.
87. Background: Hammer v. Dagenhart concerned an act of Congress that banned the products of child labor from interstate commerce.
88. Industry, labor, the government and others tried to address such concerns in 1994.
89. The labor force expanded by 509, 000, a sign of growing confidence in the prospect of finding work.
90. They concentrate ori mobilizing and deploying capital, labor, and technology to achieve desired purposes.
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