Sounds | ley'ber | |
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Rhymes | absorber ... weber / Weber: 72 rhymes with ber... |
Meaning | A social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages. | |
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Example | "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field" | |
Synonyms | labour, working class, proletariat | |
Members | proletarian, prole, worker | A member of the working class (not necessarily employed) |
Narrower | labor force, labor pool | The source of trained people from which workers can be hired |
lumpenproletariat | (Marxism) the unorganized lower levels of the proletariat who are not interested in revolutionary advancement | |
organized labor | employees who are represented by a labor union | |
Broader | class, stratum, social class, socio-economic class | People having the same social, economic, or educational status |
Spanish | clase obrera, clase trabajadora, proletariado, trabajadores | |
Catalan | classe obrera, classe treballadora, proletariat, treballadors |
Meaning | Productive work (especially physical work done for wages). | |
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Example | "his labor did not require a great deal of skill" | |
Synonyms | labour, toil | |
Narrower | corvee | unpaid labor (as for the maintenance of roads) required by a lord of his vassals in lieu of taxes |
drudgery, plodding, grind, donkeywork | Hard monotonous routine work | |
effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat | Use of physical or mental energy | |
hackwork | professional work done according to formula | |
haymaking | cutting grass and curing it to make hay | |
hunt, hunting | The work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts / pelts | |
manual labor, manual labour | labor done with the hands | |
overwork, overworking | The act of working too much or too long | |
roping | capturing cattle or horses with a lasso | |
slavery | Work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay | |
Broader | work | Activity directed toward making or doing something |
Spanish | faena, labor, trabajo | |
Catalan | feina, labor, treball | |
Adjectives | laborious | characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion |
Verbs | labor | work hard |
Meaning | concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child. | |
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Example | "she was in labor for six hours" | |
Synonyms | parturiency, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed | |
Part of | pregnancy, gestation, maternity | The state of being pregnant |
Parts | asynclitism, obliquity | The presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle |
effacement | shortening of the uterine cervix and thinning of its walls as it is dilated during labor | |
uterine contraction | A rhythmic tightening in labor of the upper uterine musculature that contracts the size of the uterus and pushes the fetus toward the birth canal | |
Narrower | premature labor, premature labour | labor beginning prior to the 37th week of gestation |
Broader | parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing | The process of giving birth |
Spanish | embarazo, gestación | |
Catalan | embaràs, gestació | |
Verbs | labor | undergo the efforts / efforts of childbirth |
Meaning | An organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement. | |
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Synonyms | labor movement, trade union movement | |
Parts | union, labor union, trade union, trades union, brotherhood | An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer |
Narrower | Industrial Workers of the World, IWW, I.W.W. | A former international labor union and radical labor movement in the United States |
unionism, trade unionism | The system or principles and theory of labor unions | |
Broader | reform movement | A movement intended to bring about social and humanitarian reforms |
Spanish | movimiento obrero | |
Catalan | moviment obrer |
Meaning | A political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries. | |
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Synonyms | British Labour Party, Labour Party, Labour | |
Members | Labourite | A member of the British Labour Party |
Broader | labor party, labour party | A left-of-center political party formed to represent the interest of ordinary working people |
Spanish | Partido Laborista | |
Catalan | Partit Laborista |
Meaning | The federal department responsible / responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913. | |
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Synonyms | Department of Labor, Labor Department, DoL | |
Parts | Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA | A government agency in the Department of Labor to maintain a safe and healthy work environment |
Broader | executive department | A federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States |
Spanish | Departamento de trabajo, ministerio de trabajo | |
Catalan | ministeri de treball |
Meaning | strive and make an effort to reach / reach a goal / goal. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE | |
Synonyms | tug, labour, push, drive | |
Narrower | strive, reach, strain | To exert much effort or energy |
Broader | fight, struggle | make a strenuous or labored effort |
Similar to | push, bear on | Press, drive, or impel (someone) to action or completion of an action |
Spanish | hacer trabajar mucho, laborar, matarse trabajando, presionar, trabajar duro | |
Nouns | labor | any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted |
laborer | someone who works with their hands |
Meaning | Work hard. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP | |
Synonyms | labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil | |
Broader | work, do work | Be employed |
Spanish | afanarse, fatigarse, trabajar duro | |
Nouns | labor | productive work (especially physical work done for wages) |
labor | any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted | |
laborer | someone who works with their hands |
Meaning | Undergo the efforts / efforts of childbirth. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
Synonym | labour | |
Entails | give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have | Cause to be born |
Broader | undergo | Pass through |
Nouns | labor | concluding state of pregnancy |
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