English noun: labour | |||
1. | labour (group) a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages | ||
Samples | There is a shortage of skilled labor in this field. | ||
Synonyms | labor, proletariat, working class | ||
Broader (hypernym) | class, social class, socio-economic class, stratum | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | labor force, labor pool, lumpenproletariat, organized labor | ||
Member holonym | prole, proletarian, worker | ||
2. | labour (state) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | ||
Samples | She was in labor for six hours. | ||
Synonyms | childbed, confinement, labor, lying-in, parturiency, travail | ||
Broader (hypernym) | birth, birthing, giving birth, parturition | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | premature labor, premature labour | ||
Part holonym | asynclitism, effacement, obliquity, uterine contraction | ||
Part meronym | gestation, maternity, pregnancy | ||
3. | Labour (group) 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 | British Labour Party, Labor, Labour Party | ||
Broader (hypernym) | labor party, labour party | ||
Member holonym | Labourite | ||
4. | labour (act) productive work (especially physical work done for wages) | ||
Samples | His labor did not require a great deal of skill. | ||
Synonyms | labor, toil | ||
Broader (hypernym) | work | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | corvee, donkeywork, drudgery, effort, elbow grease, exertion, grind, hackwork, haymaking, hunt, hunting, manual labor, manual labour, overwork, overworking, plodding, roping, slavery, sweat, travail | ||
English verb: labour | |||
1. | labour (social) work hard | ||
Samples | She was digging away at her math homework. Lexicographers drudge all day long. | ||
Synonyms | dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, moil, toil, travail | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s PP | ||
Broader (hypernym) | do work, work | ||
2. | labour (social) strive and make an effort to reach a goal | ||
Samples | 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 | drive, labor, push, tug | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE | ||
Broader (hypernym) | fight, struggle | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | reach, strain, strive | ||
Verb group | bear on, push | ||
3. | labour (body) undergo the efforts of childbirth | ||
Synonyms | labor | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s | ||
Broader (hypernym) | undergo | ||
Entail | bear, birth, deliver, give birth, have | ||