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labor    音标拼音: [l'ebɚ]
n. 劳动,努力,工作,劳工,分娩
vi. 劳动,努力,苦干
vt. 详细分析,麻烦

劳动,努力,工作,劳工,分娩劳动,努力,苦干详细分析,麻烦

labor
人工

labor
n 1: a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work
for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this
field" [synonym: {labor}, {labour}, {working class},
{proletariat}]
2: productive work (especially physical work done for wages);
"his labor did not require a great deal of skill" [synonym:
{labor}, {labour}, {toil}]
3: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions
to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
[synonym: {parturiency}, {labor}, {labour}, {confinement},
{lying-in}, {travail}, {childbed}]
4: an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by
united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders
of this movement [synonym: {labor movement}, {trade union
movement}, {labor}]
5: a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900;
characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and
formerly the socialization of key industries [synonym: {British
Labour Party}, {Labour Party}, {Labour}, {Labor}]
6: the federal department responsible for promoting the working
conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in
1913 [synonym: {Department of Labor}, {Labor Department},
{Labor}, {DoL}]
7: any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted; "he
prepared for great undertakings" [synonym: {undertaking},
{project}, {task}, {labor}]
v 1: strive and make an effort to reach a goal; "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" [synonym: {tug}, {labor}, {labour}, {push},
{drive}]
2: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework";
"Lexicographers drudge all day long" [synonym: {labor}, {labour},
{toil}, {fag}, {travail}, {grind}, {drudge}, {dig}, {moil}]
3: undergo the efforts of childbirth [synonym: {labor}, {labour}]

Labor \La"bor\ (l[=a]"b[~e]r), n. [OE. labour, OF. labour,
laber, labur, F. labeur, L. labor; cf. Gr. lamba`nein to
take, Skr. labh to get, seize.] [Written also {labour}.]
1. Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when
fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from
sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort directed to some
useful end, as agriculture, manufactures, and like;
servile toil; exertion; work.
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God hath set
Labor and rest, as day and night, to men
Successive. --Milton.
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2. Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of
compiling a history.
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3. That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that
which demands effort.
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Being a labor of so great a difficulty, the exact
performance thereof we may rather wish than look
for. --Hooker.
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4. Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.
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The queen's in labor,
They say, in great extremity; and feared
She'll with the labor end. --Shak.
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5. Any pang or distress. --Shak.
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6. (Naut.) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results
in the straining of timbers and rigging.
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7. [Sp.] A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to
an area of 1771/7 acres. --Bartlett.

8. (Mining.) A stope or set of stopes. [Sp. Amer.]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Syn: Work; toil; drudgery; task; exertion; effort; industry;
painstaking. See {Toll}.
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Labor \La"bor\, v. t. [F. labourer, L. laborare.]
1. To work at; to work; to till; to cultivate by toil.
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The most excellent lands are lying fallow, or only
labored by children. --W. Tooke.
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2. To form or fabricate with toil, exertion, or care. "To
labor arms for Troy." --Dryden.
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3. To prosecute, or perfect, with effort; to urge
strenuously; as, to labor a point or argument.
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4. To belabor; to beat. [Obs.] --Dryden.
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Labor \La"bor\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Labored}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Laboring}.] [OE. labouren, F. labourer, L. laborare. See
{Labor}, n.] [Written also {labour}.]
1. To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with
painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to
work; to toil.
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Adam, well may we labor still to dress
This garden. --Milton.
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2. To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any
design; to strive; to take pains.
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3. To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's
work under conditions which make it especially hard,
wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under
a burden; to be burdened; -- often with under, and
formerly with of.
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The stone that labors up the hill. --Granville.
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The line too labors, and the words move slow.
--Pope.
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To cure the disorder under which he labored. --Sir
W. Scott.
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Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest. --Matt. xi. 28
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4. To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be
in labor.
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5. (Naut.) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent
sea. --Totten.
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206 Moby Thesaurus words for "labor":
accouchement, activities, activity, affair, affairs, aim,
always trot out, amplify, assignment, bag, be busy, be confined,
be determined, be employed, bear, bear a child, bear young,
belabor, birth, birth throes, birthing, blessed event, blunder,
business, busywork, calve, careen, career, carry on business, cast,
char, chare, charge, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, chore,
commerce, commission, complete, concern, concernment, confinement,
cultivate, delivery, detail, dirty work, do business, do chars,
do the chores, donkeywork, dress, drive, drop, drudge, drudgery,
duty, dwell on, dwell upon, effort, elaborate, employ, employees,
employment, endeavor, endure, enlarge, enlarge upon,
enter into detail, enterprise, errand, exercise, exertion, expand,
fag, falter, farrow, fatigue, fawn, fish to fry, flounce, flounder,
foal, follow a trade, function, genesis, give birth, giving birth,
go into, grind, hammer away at, handiwork, handwork, hard work,
harp on, hatching, have, have a baby, have a job, have young,
having a baby, homework, industry, insist upon, interest, job,
job of work, keep up, kitten, labor under, laborers, laboriousness,
lamb, lick, lick of work, lie in, litter, lookout, lurch,
make-work, manual labor, matter, matters in hand, mission, moil,
moonlight, multiparity, nascency, nativity, occupation, odd job,
overdo, overemphasize, overstress, pains, parturition,
piece of work, pitch, pitch and plunge, plunge,
practice a profession, project, pup, rat race, reel, resolve, rock,
roll, scut work, seek, seethe, service, set up shop, slave,
slavery, slogging, spadework, spell out, stagger, stay employed,
stint, strain, strive, stroke, stroke of work, struggle, study,
stumble, suffer, sway, sweat, sweat blood, swing, swot, task, tend,
the Nativity, the stork, thing, things to do, thrash about,
thresh over, throw, tiresome work, toil, toss, toss and tumble,
toss and turn, totter, transact business, travail, treadmill, tug,
tumble, turn a hand, undertaking, wallop, wallow, welter, whelp,
work, work at, work for, work out, workers, yean

LABOR. Continued operation; work.
2. The labor and skill of one man is frequently used in a partnership,
and valued as equal to the capital of another.
3. When business has been done for another, and suit is brought to
recover a just reward, there is generally contained in the declaration, a
count for work and labor.
4. Where penitentiaries exist, persons who have committed crimes are
condemned to be imprisoned therein at labor.

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  • LABOR Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
    : the services performed by workers for wages as distinguished from those rendered by entrepreneurs for profits Industry needs labor for production The institute … lacks the ready supply of cheap labor —graduate students—that teaching institutions have Ann Gibbons
  • Labor - Johns Hopkins Medicine
    Labor is a series of continuous, progressive contractions of the uterus that help the cervix dilate (open) and efface (thin) This allows the fetus to move through the birth canal Labor usually starts two weeks before or after the estimated date of delivery However, the exact trigger for the onset of labor is unknown
  • U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
    The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics
  • Stages of Labor: What To Expect During Labor Delivery
    In general, the three stages of labor are: Healthcare providers may call this “normal labor ” They use this definition and the stages to communicate effectively with each other and you Just because you don’t go through every step of “normal” labor doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with your birthing experience
  • Stages of Labor Types of Childbirth Delivery - WebMD
    Labor is the body’s natural process of childbirth It lasts on average 12 to 24 hours for a first birth Usually, labor is shorter for births after that Labor happens in three stages The
  • LABOR | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
    Farming has been mechanized, reducing the need for labor The older generation were bent double from decades of labor in the fields Society is challenging the traditional sexual division of labor There has been some increase in the use of casual labor over recent years We'll invoice you for parts and labor
  • What is labor? | NICHD - NICHD - Eunice Kennedy Shriver National . . .
    Labor is the process by which the fetus and the placenta leave the uterus Delivery can occur in two ways, vaginally (through the birth canal) or by a cesarean (surgical) delivery NICHD provides detailed information about these topics on its Labor and Delivery page
  • Labor Definition Meaning | Britannica Dictionary
    If you continue to believe something that is not true, you are laboring under a delusion misapprehension misconception He still labors under the delusion that other people value his opinion
  • LABOR definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
    verb intransitive Origin: ME laboren < OFr laborer < L laborare < the n 8 9 10 a b 11 12 13 Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 5th Digital Edition Copyright © 2025 HarperCollins Publishers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 12 13 14 15 16 Brit dialect
  • Labor - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com
    Labor is usually associated with very hard, physical work, suggesting fatigue and aching muscles In fact, a woman giving birth is said to be in labor, giving true meaning to the phrase "labor of love " The word can also be used as a verb, as in "He had to labor many years to pay off his debt "





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