What are some opposite words for labor?
Antonyms for labor
ˈleɪ bərla·bor
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term labor.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
labor
Industry is the quality, action, or habit of earnest, steady, and continued attention or devotion to any useful or productive work or task, manual or mental. Assiduity (Latin ad, to, and sedeo, sit), as the etymology suggests, sits down to a task until it is done. Diligence (Latin diligo, love, choose) invests more effort and exertion, with love of the work or deep interest in its accomplishment; application (Latin ad, to, and plico, fold) bends to its work and concentrates all one's powers upon it with utmost intensity; hence, application can hardly be as unremitting as assiduity. Constancy is a steady devotion of heart and principle. Patience works on in spite of annoyances; perseverance overcomes hindrances and difficulties; persistence strives relentlessly against opposition; persistence has very frequently an unfavorable meaning, implying that one persists in spite of considerations that should induce him to desist. Industry is diligence applied to some avocation, business, or profession. Labor and pains refer to the exertions of the worker and the tax upon him, while assiduity, perseverance, etc., refer to his continuance in the work.
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changeableness, fickleness, idleness, inattention, inconstancy, indolence, neglect, negligence, remissness, slothSynonyms:
application, assiduity, attention, constancy, diligence, effort, exertion, industry, intentness, pains, patience, perseverance, persistence, sedulousness
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Princeton's WordNet
labor, labour, working class, proletariatnoun
a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
"there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
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labour, labor movement, confinement, parturiency, working class, undertaking, trade union movement, childbed, task, toil, proletariat, travail, lying-in, projectlabor, labour, toilnoun
productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
"his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
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labour, labor movement, confinement, parturiency, working class, undertaking, trade union movement, childbed, task, toil, proletariat, travail, lying-in, projectparturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbednoun
concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
"she was in labor for six hours"
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trade union movement, elbow grease, task, proletariat, travail, childbed, labour, effort, project, labor movement, sweat, working class, toil, parturiency, restriction, lying-in, confinement, exertion, undertakinglabor movement, trade union movement, labornoun
an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement
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labour, labor movement, confinement, working class, undertaking, parturiency, trade union movement, childbed, task, toil, proletariat, travail, lying-in, projectBritish Labour Party, Labour Party, Labour, Labornoun
a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries
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trade union movement, task, proletariat, travail, childbed, labour, project, labor movement, labour party, working class, toil, parturiency, lying-in, confinement, labor party, undertakingDepartment of Labor, Labor Department, Labor, DoLnoun
the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913
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labour, labor movement, confinement, parturiency, working class, undertaking, trade union movement, childbed, task, toil, proletariat, travail, lying-in, projectundertaking, project, task, laborverb
any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
"he prepared for great undertakings"
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trade union movement, task, proletariat, travail, projection, childbed, labour, project, labor movement, working class, toil, parturiency, lying-in, chore, confinement, job, undertakingtug, labor, labour, push, driveverb
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"
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fight, force back, crowd, lug, get, dig, ram, drudge, moil, press, tug, agitate, advertize, take, repel, aim, drive, promote, travail, crusade, labour, motor, advertise, grind, bear on, repulse, force, ride, push, campaign, tote, push back, toil, beat backlabor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moilverb
work hard
"She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
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compass, comminute, tug, boil, roil, toil, grind, dig, craunch, drudge, moil, dig up, tire, wear out, poke, cut into, crunch, churn, cranch, jab, grasp, weary, prod, jade, tire out, wear upon, fatigue, travail, delve, get the picture, drive, hollow, stab, apprehend, outwear, comprehend, turn over, excavate, mash, wear down, savvy, push, grok, wear, bray, dig out, grate, fag out, labourlabor, labourverb
undergo the efforts of childbirth
Synonyms:
labour, dig, travail, drudge, push, grind, drive, toil, tug, moil
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How to use labor in a sentence?
It's not only disturbing, it's disheartening because our companies have zero tolerance for labor abuses, these type of things flourish in the shadows.
What I've seen change is that the vast majority of labor now supports it.
Combining these data with figures from the Labor Department's employment report suggests that labor market slack continues to diminish, on balance, the data suggest labor demand held up solidly at the beginning of the third quarter.
The Chinese government's The Chinese government that we have laws to regulate general relations in the labor market — but The Chinese government also depends on enforcement, if there is no strong enforcement of those regulations, it's really easy for employers to make gender-based hiring and promotion decisions.
I've learned for a long time in this business not to discuss sources, or the process, or how stories are done, but I would just say that its a common practice to run information past sources. And in this particular case, during a labor intensive lockout that was a complicated subject that was new to understand. I took the extra rare step to run information past one of the people that I was talking to. You know, it was an important story to fans ; a host of others, and that's the situation.
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#1547 | rest | |
#1865 | facility | |
#2137 | labor | |
#2587 | recreation | |
#4391 | skill | |
#4819 | ease | |
#11158 | neglect | |
#12928 | negligence | |
#28771 | inactivity | |
#36210 | refreshment | |
#38659 | sloth | |
#67297 | idleness | |
#75377 | inattention | |
#115916 | indolence | |
#219450 | fickleness | |
#233090 | inconstancy |
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