Synonyms for labor
ˈleɪ bərla·bor

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1. 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.

   Synonyms:
   application, assiduity, attention, constancy, diligence, effort, exertion, industry, intentness, pains, patience, perseverance, persistence, sedulousness

   Antonyms:
   changeableness, fickleness, idleness, inattention, inconstancy, indolence, neglect, negligence, remissness, sloth

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1. labor

   Synonyms:
   work, toil, burn, drudgery, exertion, effort, industry, task, duties

   Antonyms:
   indolence, ease, inactivity, facility, skill, recreation, rest, refreshment

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1. 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"

   Synonyms:
   labour, labor movement, confinement, parturiency, working class, undertaking, trade union movement, childbed, task, toil, proletariat, travail, lying-in, project

2. labor, labour, toilnoun

   productive work (especially physical work done for wages)

   "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"

   Synonyms:
   labour, labor movement, confinement, parturiency, working class, undertaking, trade union movement, childbed, task, toil, proletariat, travail, lying-in, project

3. parturiency, 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"

   Synonyms:
   trade union movement, elbow grease, task, proletariat, travail, childbed, labour, effort, project, labor movement, sweat, working class, toil, parturiency, restriction, lying-in, confinement, exertion, undertaking

4. labor 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

   Synonyms:
   labour, labor movement, confinement, working class, undertaking, parturiency, trade union movement, childbed, task, toil, proletariat, travail, lying-in, project

5. British 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

   Synonyms:
   trade union movement, task, proletariat, travail, childbed, labour, project, labor movement, labour party, working class, toil, parturiency, lying-in, confinement, labor party, undertaking

6. Department 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

   Synonyms:
   labour, labor movement, confinement, parturiency, working class, undertaking, trade union movement, childbed, task, toil, proletariat, travail, lying-in, project

7. undertaking, project, task, laborverb

   any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted

   "he prepared for great undertakings"

   Synonyms:
   trade union movement, task, proletariat, travail, projection, childbed, labour, project, labor movement, working class, toil, parturiency, lying-in, chore, confinement, job, undertaking

8. tug, 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"

   Synonyms:
   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 back

9. labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moilverb

   work hard

   "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"

   Synonyms:
   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, labour

10. labor, labourverb

    undergo the efforts of childbirth

    Synonyms:
    labour, dig, travail, drudge, push, grind, drive, toil, tug, moil

Matched Categories

1. • Class
   • Executive Department
   • Labor Party
   • Reform Movement
   • Undergo
   • Work

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1. labornoun

   Synonyms:
   toil, work, exertion, effort, pains, drudgery

2. labornoun

   Synonyms:
   travail, parturition, childbirth, delivery

3. laborverb

   Synonyms:
   toll, strive, drudge, work, exert one's self, take pains

4. laborverb

   Synonyms:
   suffer, be afflicted, be distressed

5. laborverb

   Synonyms:
   travail, be in travail, be in labor

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1. labornoun

   Synonyms:
   toil, work, drudgery, task, industry, travail

2. laborverb

   Synonyms:
   toil, work, drudge, slave, moil, travail

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "labor":

   labour, work, working, workers, workforce, action, employment, manpower, job

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1. Robert NozicK:

   Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone’s labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.

2. Millan Mulraine:

   The bigger question will be determining whether this deterioration in labor market momentum is part of a broader inflection point for the economic recovery, this is the Fed's 'known unknown,' and a risk management approach will require more patience to assess the incoming labor market data for an answer to the question of whether this is a realignment in the labor market dynamics to a more sustainable path, or a more worrying relapse in the recovery.

3. Steven Fielding:

   Labor has been divided for such a period that you just write off the next general election even under Owen Smith ... he has had the backing of the parliamentary Labor Party but then what will Momentum do?, in any scenario it is going to be a long, hard struggle, and before it gets better I think it will get worse for the Labor Party ... It is not a pretty prospect.

4. Karl Marx:

   Capital is dead labor, which, ampire-like, Iives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

5. Jesse Hurwitz:

   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.