Labor – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
labor
n.
strenuous physical or mental work, toil, exertion; job or work that must be accomplished; work-force, workers; working class; uterine contractions; childbirth
v.
work, toil, exert oneself; work hard, struggle (especially to attain a goal); move heavily; be troubled, suffer a disadvantage; give birth; discuss or think about excessively; tire
Labor
n.
political party which represents the interests of the worker
Labour
Labour or
Labor may refer to:
Employment
- Contract labour or Employment, a relationship between an employer and an employee
- Manual labour, physical work done by people
- Wage labour, delivery of services by person for payment
- Bonded labour, a system of unfree labour where a person must work to pay off a debt
- Child labour, the employment of children under an age determined by law or custom
- Labour Day, a national holiday in many countries
- Labour economics, the functioning and dynamics of the markets for labour
- Labor force, the people of a country or other geographic entity actively employed or seeking employment
- Labour/Le Travail, an academic journal focusing on the Canadian labour movement
- Labour movement, the development of a collective organisation of working people
- Labor pool or Workforce, the people working in a company, industry, nation or other group
- Labor relations, the study of the relationship between management and workers
- Labour union or Trade union, an association of wage-earners meant to maintain or improve conditions of employment
- Unfree labour, work relations in which people are employed against their will
Labor
Noun
1. a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and the socialization of key industries
(synonym) Labour Party, Labour, Labor Party
(hypernym) party, political party
(member-meronym) Labourite
2. 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, DoL
(hypernym) executive department
(part-meronym) Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA
labor
Noun
1. productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
(synonym) labour, toil
(hypernym) work
(hyponym) roping
(derivation) labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
2. a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
(synonym) labour, working class, proletariat
(hypernym) class, social class, socio-economic class
(hyponym) labor force, labor pool
(member-meronym) proletarian, prole, worker
3. concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
(synonym) parturiency, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
(hypernym) parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing
(hyponym) premature labor, premature labour
(part-holonym) pregnancy, gestation, maternity
(part-meronym) uterine contraction
(derivation) labour
4. an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action especially via labor unions (especially the leaders of this movement)
(synonym) labor movement, trade union movement
(hypernym) reform movement
(hyponym) Industrial Workers of the World, IWW, I.W.W.
(part-meronym) union, labor union, trade union, trades union, brotherhood
5. any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted; "he prepared for great undertakings"
(synonym) undertaking, project, task
(hypernym) work
(hyponym) cinch, breeze, picnic, snap, duck soup, child's play, pushover, walkover, piece of cake
(derivation) labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
Verb
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, labour, push, drive
(hypernym) fight, struggle
(hyponym) strive, reach, strain
(verb-group) push, bear on
(derivation) undertaking, project, task
2. work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
(synonym) labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
(hypernym) work, do work
(derivation) labour, toil
3. undergo the efforts of childbirth
(synonym) labour
(hypernym) experience, receive, have, get, undergo
(entail) give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have
(derivation) parturiency, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
Labor (das)
n.
laboratory, room or building fitted with equipment for scientific experimentation
Labor
n.
Labor, political party which represents the interests of the worker
