Synonym: Labor, Labor Party, Labour, Labour Party, childbed, confinement, dig, drive, drudge, fag, grind, labor, lying-in, moil, parturiency, proletariat, push, toil, travail, tug, working class. Similar words: labourer, fall about, mill about, labour of love, labour saving, division of labour, labor, about. Meaning: ['leɪbə(r)] n. 1. a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages 2. concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child 3. a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and the socialization of key industries 4. productive work (especially physical work done for wages). v. 1. work hard 2. strive and make an effort to reach a goal 3. undergo the efforts of childbirth.
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181. Labour shortages have forced the Japanese into making heavy use of industrial robots.
182. The two parties of labour and capital have bargained a new wage increase.
183. For the employer, a part-time workforce means a cheap labour supply.
184. With their new youthful and telegenic leader, the Labour party looks set to woo the voters.
185. He argues that the free supply of skilled labour will act as an incentive for employees to be more diligent.
186. Firms are trying to shift the balance of power in the labour market back in their favour.
187. Two left-wingers have been put forward for the Labour Party's National Executive.
188. I don't want to labour the point but there it is.
189. The Tories found themselves outflanked by Labour on the issue of law and order.
190. On the whole the working class is still wedded to the Labour Party.
191. Not every new MP is a squeaky-clean Blairite; some are even Old Labour leftists.
192. When the Labour party candidate didn't win the election(sentencedict.com/labour.html), he cried foul and demanded a recount.
193. May 1st is labour day in a lot of countries.
194. The differences between manual labour and mental labour are diminishing in some developed countries.
195. The aim was to strengthen and revivify the Labour Party.
196. How shall we divide up the labour in the work?
197. The textile industry still relies to some extent on sweated labour.
198. The longer people have been unemployed(sentencedict.com), the harder it is for them to compete in the labour market.
199. Labour has a more fully developed programme for the unemployed.
200. These machines would relieve the peasants of their backbreaking labour.
201. He was once the great white hope of the Labour Party.
202. Labour has / have been in power for five years.
203. After the Labour Party conference, he stated that we could now go forward as a united party.
204. There's already a blanket ban on foreign unskilled labour in Japan.
205. The Labour Party swept in on a tide of discontent over rising prices.
206. Several Labour MPs disagree with their party's line on taxation.
207. Labour quickly moved a closure motion to end the debate.
208. The Labour Party won a huge majority at the last general election.
209. He's always working on his car - it's a labour of love.
210. The Conservatives won the seat from Labour in the last election.
More similar words: labourer, fall about, mill about, labour of love, labour saving, division of labour, labor, about, labored, belabor, abound, go about, get about, come about, set about, care about, know about, laborious, labor force, elaborate, just about, look about, beat about, out and about, up and about, cast about, be about to, abound in, mess about, forget about.