labor

• abortion
• accouchement
• activity
• affair
• aftereffect
• aftermath
• apprentice
• article
• attack
• attempt
• bang away
• bear
• beast
• birth
• birth pang
• birth pangs
• blue-collar worker
• bother
• breadwinner
• burden
• by-product
• caesarean section
• cesarean section
• childbearing
• childbed
• childbirth
• chore
• commodity
• conclusion
• confinement
• consequence
• contraction
• contractions
• corollary
• cultivate
• daily grind
• delivery
• derivative
• development
• dig in
• diligence
• dint
• donkeywork
• drive
• drudge
• drudgery
• duty
• effect
• effort
• eke out
• elbow grease
• employee
• employment
• endeavor
• energy
• entry
• essay
• exercise
• exert
• exert oneself
• exertion
• expenditure
• fag
• fatigue
• fling
• force
• fruit
• giving birth
• go
• goods
• grind
• grind away
• grub
• gruntwork
• hand
• handcraft
• handicraft
• handiwork
• hard hat
• headache
• heavy lifting
• help
• helper
• hireling
• hump
• hustle
• industry
• issue
• job
• killer
• knuckle down
• laborer
• learner
• line
• load
• lucubration
• lying-in
• merchandise
• might
• miscarriage
• moil
• moonlight
• muscle
• natural childbirth
• nuisance
• object
• obligation
• offshoot
• offspring
• operation
• outcome
• outgrowth
• output
• overexert
• overwork
• pains
• parturition
• pass
• pitch in
• plod
• plow
• plug
• plug away
• pour it on
• power
• pregnancy
• prentice
• produce
• product
• production
• proletarian
• puissance
• pull
• push
• put out
• rank and file
• residual
• responsibility
• result
• resultant
• routine
• scrabble
• scratch
• sequel
• sequence
• shot
• side effect
• side reaction
• slave
• slavery
• slog
• spadework
• spin-off
• stab
• strain
• stress
• strive
• struggle
• sweat
• sweat blood
• tedium
• tend
• thing
• throes
• toil
• toiler
• travail
• treadmill
• trial
• trouble
• trudge
• try
• tug
• upshot
• wade
• wares
• weight
• whack
• while
• work
• work force
• work oneself to the bone
• worker
• working people
• yield

• adroitness
• amusement
• bask
• be lazy
• break
• breeze
• bum
• check
• chill
• cinch
• dabble
• dalliance
• dally
• dallying
• decompression
• dillydally
• diversion
• doodle
• dormancy
• duck soup
• ease
• entertainment
• facility
• fluency
• fool around
• footle
• fribble
• fun
• goldbrick
• goldbricking
• hang
• hang about
• hindrance
• idle
• idleness
• ignore
• inaction
• inactivity
• indifference
• indolence
• inertia
• inertness
• kid stuff
• languor
• laze
• laziness
• leisure
• let up
• lethargy
• loaf
• loafing
• loll
• lolling
• lounge
• lounging
• management
• manager
• mess around
• neglect
• obstruction
• play
• quiescence
• recreation
• relax
• relaxation
• repose
• rest
• setup
• shirk
• slacken
• smoothness
• snap
• sport
• trifle
• unemployment
• unwind
• veg out

• noun
  1. Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
  2. That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
  3. Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.
  4. A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
  5. The act of a mother giving birth.
  6. The time period during which a mother gives birth.
  7. The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
  8. An old measure of land area in Mexico and Texas, approximately 177 acres.
• verb
  1. To toil, to work.
  2. To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).
  3. 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.
  4. To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
  5. To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.

• The construction site was abuzz with the sounds of labor as workers built the new skyscraper.
• The expectant mother was in the early stages of labor when she arrived at the hospital.
• The farmers put in long hours of hard labor to bring in the harvest.
• The history museum showcased the tools used in manual labor during the industrial revolution.
• The company acknowledged the dedication and commitment of its employees with a special labor appreciation event.

caesarean section

labor force

wade

wading

calisthenics

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