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.

  •Labour Party (noun)
  • Labour Party.
  •
  • heavy lifting,
  • work,
  • pursuit,
  • challenge,
  • care,
  • dedication,
  • strain.
  •
  • fellow traveler,
  • commie,
  • the labor movement,
  • the HUAC,
  • comrade,
  • communist,
  • bolshevik,
  • the ANC,
  • the House Un-American Activities Committee.
  •childbed (noun)
  • childbed.
  •confinement (noun)
  • confinement.
  •dig (noun)
  • dig.
  •drudge (noun)
  • drudge.
  •fag (noun)
  • fag.
  •grind (noun)
  • grind.
  •parturiency (noun)
  • parturiency.
  •proletariat (noun)
  • proletariat.
  •toil (noun)
  • toil.
  •travail (noun)
  • travail.
  •working class (noun)
  • working class.

• Other synonyms:

  •v.
  • action,
  • activity,
  • deed,
  • do work,
  • exhaust,
  • experience,
  • fight,
  • get,
  • have,
  • receive,
  • refine,
  • struggle,
  • suffer,
  • try,
  • undergo.

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.

Labour Sentence Examples:

• He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.

• Here, however, as in their native country, the women work hard, and certainly bear their fair proportion of labour.

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.