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Labor 1Definition: 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.
Labor 2Definition: Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history. Labor 3Definition: That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort. Labor 4Definition: Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth. Labor 5Definition: Any pang or distress. Labor 6Definition: The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging. Labor 7Definition: A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of acres. Labor 8Definition: To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth. Labor 9Definition: To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea. Labor 10Definition: To work at; to work; to till; to cultivate by toil. Labor 11Definition: To form or fabricate with toil, exertion, or care. Labor 12Definition: To prosecute, or perfect, with effort; to urge stre/uously; as, to labor a point or argument. Labor 13Definition: To belabor; to beat. labor 14Definition: productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill" labor 15Definition: any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted; "he prepared for great undertakings" Labor 16Definition: the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in labor 17Definition: a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field" Labor 18Definition: a political party formed in Great Britain in characterized by the promotion of labor''s interests and the socialization of key industries labor 19Definition: an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action especially via labor unions (especially the leaders of this movement) labor 20Definition: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours" labor 21Definition: undergo the efforts of childbirth labor 22Definition: 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" labor 23Definition: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
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