Synonyms for labour
ˈleɪ bərlabour

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

2. 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, effort, project, labor movement, sweat, working class, toil, parturiency, labor, restriction, lying-in, confinement, exertion, undertaking

3. 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, project, labor movement, labour party, working class, toil, parturiency, labor, lying-in, confinement, labor party, undertaking

4. labor, labour, toilverb

   productive work (especially physical work done for wages)

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

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

5. 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, labor, mash, wear down, savvy, push, grok, wear, bray, dig out, grate, fag out

6. 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, motor, advertise, grind, bear on, repulse, labor, force, ride, push, campaign, tote, push back, toil, beat back

7. labor, labourverb

   undergo the efforts of childbirth

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

Matched Categories

1. • Class
   • Labor Party
   • Undergo

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1. List of paraphrases for "labour":

   work, labor, working, workforce, employment, job, workers, manpower, labor-management, occupational, action, laboral, workplace, workday, pracy, labour-related, labour-capital, worker, labourers, work-related, labour-

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How to use labour in a sentence?

1. Park Tae-ju:

   Sometimes a labour union should make concessions to drive changes, such as boosting flexibility in production. But with a weak support base, the current leadership can't push ahead with such changes.

2. Pollyanna De Lima:

   With the sole exception of the mild increase in hiring seen among service providers last July, the two surveys collectively have signalled a broadly stagnant labour market for the past two years.

3. Michael Hewson:

   An extremely positive number could cause some ripples particularly given the timing of a Fed rate hike, as it would suggest that any slack in the US labour market could disappear faster than anticipated.

4. Maxim Gorky:

   What is most beautiful in this world of ours has been created by man's labour, by his clever hands; all our thoughts and ideas spring from the process of labour, and this is something the history of art, science and technology convinces us of.

5. Finance Minister Michel Sapin:

   First and foremost we must be firm, doing otherwise would be wrong with respect to (other) labour unions, most of whom support the text.