Definition for Labour:

• l[= a]' bur, n. toil or exertion, esp. when fatiguing: work: pains: duties: a task requiring hard work: the pangs of childbirth.-- v.i. to undergo labour: to work: to take pains: to be oppressed: to move slowly: to be in travail: ( naut.) to pitch and roll heavily.-- adj. LAB[= O]' RIOUS, full of labour: toilsome: wearisome: devoted to labour: industrious.-- adv. LAB[= O]' RIOUSLY.-- n. LAB[= O]' RIOUSNESS.-- adj. L[= A]' BOURED, bearing marks of labour or effort in the execution.-- ns. L[= A]' BOURER, one who labours: one who does work requiring little skill; L[= A]' BOURIST, one who contends for the interests of workmen.-- adjs. L[= A]' BOUR-SAV'ING, intended to supersede or lessen the labour of men; L[= A]' BOURSOME ( Shak.), made with labour and diligence.-- LABOUR DAY, a legal holiday in some parts of the United States, as in New York ( the first Monday in September); LABOUR MARKET, the supply of unemployed labour in relation to the demand for it; LABOUR OF LOVE, work undertaken merely as an act of friendliness, and without hope of emolument; LABOUR WITH, to take pains to convince.-- HARD LABOUR, compulsory work imposed on certain criminals in addition to imprisonment. [ O. Fr. labour, labeur-- L. labor.]

Synonyms for Labour:

• n.

  •
  • strain,
  • pursuit,
  • work.
  •labour (noun)
  • labor party,
  • push,
  • lying-in,
  • drudge,
  • drive,
  • tug,
  • labor,
  • travail,
  • Labour Party,
  • moil,
  • proletariat,
  • confinement,
  • fag,
  • childbed,
  • working class,
  • parturiency,
  • toil,
  • dig,
  • grind.

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words:
  • lumber,
  • laboriousness,
  • task,
  • plunge,
  • do business,
  • application,
  • lucubrate,
  • things to do,
  • seethe,
  • elbow grease,
  • expand,
  • cast,
  • boil,
  • restriction,
  • set up shop,
  • spell out,
  • tend,
  • labourers,
  • crowd,
  • interest,
  • flounder,
  • make-work,
  • persistence,
  • cranch,
  • wallop,
  • grasp,
  • bear,
  • donkeywork,
  • ram,
  • undertaking,
  • swatting,
  • delivery,
  • charge,
  • handwork,
  • rat race,
  • cram,
  • be troubled,
  • elaborate,
  • attempt,
  • career,
  • birthing,
  • rehash,
  • farrow,
  • endeavour,
  • stagger,
  • calve,
  • piece of work,
  • agitate,
  • excavate,
  • operation,
  • stand firm,
  • fawn,
  • grind away,
  • fatigue,
  • assignment,
  • sweat,
  • contractions,
  • diligence,
  • reel,
  • careen,
  • kitten,
  • linger over,
  • repeat,
  • service,
  • occupation,
  • duty,
  • focus on,
  • work out,
  • galumph,
  • enlarge,
  • insist,
  • trouble,
  • slave,
  • keep up,
  • toss and turn,
  • persist in,
  • employees,
  • Scut Work,
  • drudgery,
  • assiduity,
  • harp on,
  • trudge,
  • homework,
  • reiterate,
  • project,
  • busywork,
  • slogging,
  • Chare,
  • spadework,
  • parturition,
  • belabour,
  • char,
  • resolve,
  • whelp,
  • stand fast,
  • work for,
  • dress,
  • swat,
  • exercise,
  • slavery,
  • cultivate,
  • delve,
  • study,
  • Multiparity,
  • wallow,
  • aim,
  • laborers,
  • pitch,
  • effort,
  • litter,
  • stretch,
  • recapitulate,
  • matter,
  • hard work,
  • welter,
  • skivvy,
  • rock,
  • compass,
  • stumble,
  • stint,
  • complete,
  • dwell,
  • endeavor,
  • exert oneself,
  • treadmill,
  • sweat blood,
  • be determined,
  • pains,
  • handiwork,
  • moonlight,
  • blunder,
  • insist upon,
  • repulse,
  • errand,
  • lug,
  • commerce,
  • belabor,
  • stress,
  • tread,
  • lurch,
  • bourgeoisie,
  • bag,
  • pup,
  • childbirth,
  • persist,
  • detail,
  • dwell on,
  • restate,
  • drag,
  • overstress,
  • twist,
  • take,
  • donkey-work,
  • perseverance,
  • seek,
  • stomp,
  • comminute,
  • affairs,
  • amplify,
  • accouchement,
  • energy,
  • roll,
  • go into,
  • swing,
  • peg away,
  • be busy,
  • exertion,
  • commission,
  • sway,
  • be steadfast,
  • savvy,
  • wage-earners,
  • toss,
  • make an effort,
  • outwear,
  • striving,
  • mission,
  • lamb,
  • employ,
  • tarry over,
  • plod along,
  • lick,
  • force,
  • dirty work,
  • blessed event,
  • falter,
  • endure,
  • repel,
  • genesis,
  • iterate,
  • tote,
  • struggling,
  • press,
  • plug,
  • concernment,
  • plod,
  • emphasize,
  • dwell upon,
  • strive,
  • enterprise,
  • DO,
  • effacement,
  • overdo,
  • slog,
  • tramp,
  • venture,
  • skivvying,
  • industry,
  • motor,
  • linger on,
  • lookout,
  • Yean,
  • bear a child,
  • tumble,
  • push on,
  • childbearing,
  • matters in hand,
  • work force,
  • be employed,
  • business,
  • stroke,
  • crunch,
  • work at,
  • employment,
  • have young,
  • crusade,
  • enlarge upon,
  • flounce,
  • sedulousness,
  • thing,
  • concern,
  • thrash about,
  • linger,
  • manual labor,
  • crane,
  • swot,
  • have a baby,
  • fish to fry,
  • pain,
  • job,
  • throw,
  • birth,
  • nativity,
  • nascency,
  • give birth,
  • giving birth,
  • totter,
  • recap,
  • affair,
  • function,
  • promote,
  • Activities,
  • chore,
  • grub,
  • overemphasize,
  • hammer away at,
  • workers,
  • labour force,
  • have a job,
  • vocation,
  • persevere,
  • foal,
  • drop,
  • sweating,
  • hatching.

Paraphrases for Labour:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    labor.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    labor.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    labour-capital.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    labouring.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    labor-management, labour-force, employer-employee, working-class, job-related, labor-intensive, trade-union, workplace.
  • Proper noun, singular
    laborers, responsibilities, Recommendations, lands, matters, manoeuvres, Rights, Nurses, crafts, questions, skills, benefits, functions, data, Standards, Drives, Persons, nations, goods, jobs, laboral, Workplaces, workplace.
  • Noun, plural
    Workloads, endeavours, workflows, laborers, practices, serves, shifts, jobs, Workplaces.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    Strata, Genera, labor-management, data, workmanship, trade-union, workplace.
  • Verb, past tense
    started, earned, Performed, based, needed, Happened, Did.
  • Verb, past participle
    done.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    labour-related, labour-intensive, labour-management, employment-related.
  • Noun, plural
    labourers, workforces.

Homophones for Labour:

• leap year, lophophora, laborer, lifer, lobar, laber, libra, looper, library, loafer, lowbrow, live over, laver, leaver, labor, lubber, liver, lyallpur, love affair, liberia, livery, louvar, Le Havre, layover, live-bearer, live wire, lopper, louver, leafhopper, life peer, leper, lay over, lover, louvre, lever, labourer, laffer, libber, leaper.