Word Finder - labor

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Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.

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That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.

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Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.

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A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.

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The act of a mother giving birth.

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The time period during which a mother gives birth.

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The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.

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An old measure of land area in Mexico and Texas, approximately 177 acres.

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To toil, to work.

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To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).

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I think we've all got the idea. There's no need to labour the point.

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To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard or wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden.

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To suffer the pangs of childbirth.

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To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.

He still has his labor to sell and can go get a new job.

I can do physical labor, you know.

With much hard labor and careful management I have saved only five little silver pieces.

The second way to create wealth is through the division of labor and trade.

He's a nice young man and I feel would make a far less labor intensive mate than Howie would have proved to be.

The man who has actually paid for his farm with labor on it is so rare that every neighbor can point to him.

This is because, like technology, money also multiplies the labor of man.

Jobs are created when someone starts a business that takes a thing, adds labor and technology to it, and makes a new thing.

On other estates the serfs' compulsory labor was commuted for a quitrent.

His temperament will not let him endure the labor of always producing the same pattern.

You're from the manual labor class?

Machines multiply our labor and increase our ability to do work.

Mechanical labor was scarce, and even.

Then with great labor he began to widen the passageway.

A delicate balance of local easements, public involvement and volunteer labor was slowly assembled.

Anything that requires the unamplified direct labor of a person won't either, such as a personal trainer, a babysitter, or a masseuse.

It certainly is fair to look at that class by whose labor the works which distinguish this generation are accomplished.

Two of the goats had gone into labor, so she transferred them to the building on the release side of the dairy, where they had set up temporary kidding stalls.

In return the state receives the produce of convict labor in Guiana and New Caledonia.

The labor to build it is now robotic and powered by free energy.

I am not saying if you enjoy manual labor and being exhausted at the end of the day, you shouldn't do it.

In many of these crops, good weed control could be achieved using steerage hoes without the need for hand labor.

Oxytocin use, duration of labor, prolonged infant hospitalization, and maternal fever followed a similar pattern.

Labor's promises, from banning fox hunting to not arming oppressive regimes, have proved to be lies.

This is breathtaking hypocrisy on the part of a Labor minister.

We show this video as we want the public to realize the true staggering hypocrisy and moral cowardice of this corrupt Labor government.

Tension comes to a head during the leisurely Labor Day picnic, a marathon event that begins with games and ends with booze-fuelled hysterics.

What should be the objectives of labor immigration policy?

By taking a block of marble and carving a statue, or taking a handful of seed and growing a cornfield, you have combined your labor and know-how with something of little value and have created something of more value.

One form of trade is to exchange your labor for money.

We have eliminated debtors prisons, developed the idea of "women and children first," stigmatized child labor, made accommodations for conscientious objectors, widely adopted freedom of speech and the press and freedom of assembly, and a hundred more.

The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful.

It was the same face he had seen before, there was the same general expression of refined, inner, spiritual labor, but now it was quite differently lit up.

It all boiled down to money – who had a paycheck to measure the importance of their labor and who didn't.

The principal causes are the growth of population, and the over-supply of and low rates of remuneration for manual labor in various Italian provinces.

The farmer provides all labor.

In 1893, after many vicissitudes, the Italian Socialist Labor Party was founded, and has now become the Italian Socialist Party, in which the majority of Italian workmen enrol themselves.

The low level of wages in many trades and the jealousies of the Chambers of Labor and other working-class organizations impede rapid development.

These crops (e.g. cassava, sweet potatoes) need less inputs and less labor and are high in nutritional value.

Grave robbing ghouls, that is all New Labor are.

History suggests that Labor's promises evaporate like morning mist under the fierce glare of big business.

So like Ann in 1994, should I as a left Labor MP be feeling glum?

Relying on Tory votes to get the education bill through parliament was too much even for party grandees like former Labor leader Neil Kinnock.

Scottish New Labor now found itself caught like a rabbit in the oncoming headlights of the crisis over Iraq.

Labor's by-election record is formidable so the loss of the seat in the party's Scottish heartland almost beggared belief.

The Labor Party was based on the growth of trade unionism, which was largely cut off from revolutionary influences and under bourgeois hegemony.

Other forms of dependent labor will be examined, with particular focus on Spartan Helots and on debt-bondage.

Furthermore, submucosal fibroids can increase the chances of postpartum hemorrhage, obstructed labor, stalled labor and cesarean section.

On the employment side, labor market reforms have discouraged labor hoarding.

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