labour
1. a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages (Freq. 1) - there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field • Syn: labor, working class, proletariat • Derivationally related forms: proletarian (for: proletariat) • Hypernyms: class, stratum, social class, socio-economic class • Hyponyms: labor force, labor pool, lumpenproletariat, organized labor • Member Meronyms: proletarian, prole, worker 2. productive work (especially physical work done for wages) - his labor did not require a great deal of skill • Syn: labor, toil • Derivationally related forms: toil (for: toil), laborious (for: labor), labor (for: labor) • Hypernyms: work • Hyponyms: roping, corvee, drudgery, plodding, grind, donkeywork, effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat, hunt, hunting, hackwork, haymaking, manual labor, manual labour, overwork, overworking, slavery 3. concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child - she was in labor for six hours • Syn: parturiency, labor, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed • Derivationally related forms: labor (for: labor), parturient (for: parturiency) • Hypernyms: parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing • Hyponyms: premature labor, premature labour • Part Holonyms: pregnancy, gestation, maternity • Part Meronyms: uterine contraction, effacement, asynclitism, obliquity
1. work hard - She was digging away at her math homework - Lexicographers drudge all day long • Syn: labor, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil • Derivationally related forms: drudge (for: drudge), drudgery (for: drudge), grind (for: grind), travail (for: travail), toiler (for: toil), toil (for: toil), labourer, labor (for: labor), laborer (for: labor) • Hypernyms: work, do work • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s - Somebody ----s PP 2. strive and make an effort to reach a goal - She tugged for years to make a decent living - We have to push a little to make the deadline! - She is driving away at her doctoral thesis • Syn: tug, labor, push, drive • See Also: push on (for: push) • Derivationally related forms: drive (for: drive), push (for: push), labor (for: labor), laborer (for: labor) • Hypernyms: fight, struggle • Hyponyms: strive, reach, strain • Verb Group: push, bear on • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE 3. undergo the efforts of childbirth • Syn: labor • Derivationally related forms: labor (for: labor) • Hypernyms: undergo • Entailment: give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s
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