| NOUN | group | labour, labor, working class, proletariat | a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages |
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| state | labour, parturiency, labor, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed | concluding state of pregnancy | |
| group | Labour, British Labour Party, Labour Party, Labor | a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900 | |
| act | labour, labor, toil | productive work (especially physical work done for wages) | |
| VERB | social | labour, labor, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil | work hard |
| social | labour, tug, labor, push, drive | strive and make an effort to reach / reach a goal / goal | |
| body | labour, labor | undergo the efforts / efforts of childbirth |
| Sounds | ley'baw.r; ley'ber | |
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| Rhymes | Adenauer ... sour: 9 rhymes with awr... | |
| 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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| Synonyms | labor, 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 | concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child. | |
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| Synonyms | parturiency, labor, 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 | labour | undergo the efforts / efforts of childbirth |
| 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, Labor | |
| 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 | Productive work (especially physical work done for wages). | |
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| Synonyms | labor, 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 | |
| Verbs | labour | work hard |
| labour | strive and make an effort to reach / reach a goal / goal | |
| Meaning | Work hard. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Synonyms | labor, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil | |
| Broader | work, do work | Be employed |
| Spanish | afanarse, fatigarse, trabajar duro | |
| Nouns | labour | productive work (especially physical work done for wages) |
| labourer | someone who works with their hands | |
| Meaning | strive and make an effort to reach / reach a goal / goal. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE | |
| Synonyms | tug, labor, 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 | labour | productive work (especially physical work done for wages) |
| Meaning | Undergo the efforts / efforts of childbirth. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
| Synonym | labor | |
| Entails | give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have | Cause to be born |
| Broader | undergo | Pass through |
| Nouns | labour | concluding state of pregnancy |
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