Labor | Mean of labor in English Dictionary

/ˈleɪbɚ/

• Noun
• physical or mental effort
1. A day's labor should get the job done.
2. Getting the job done will require many hours of difficult labor.
3. menial/manual labor
4. He rested from his labors.
5. Restoring the old car was a labor of love for him.
6. She worked hard for many years, but now she has retired and is able to enjoy the fruits of her labor/labors.
• work for which someone is paid
1. The cost of repairing the car includes parts and labor.
• workers considered as a group
1. an area in which there is a shortage of cheap labor
2. a labor dispute
3. The company sought to cut labor costs by increasing its efficiency.
4. The company has a history of poor labor relations. [=the workers and the managers of the company have had many disputes]
5. the labor force [=the total number of people available for working]

• the organizations or officials that represent groups of workers
1. The proposed new law is opposed by organized labor.
• the process by which a woman gives birth to a baby
1. She went into labor this morning.
2. She has been in labor for several hours.
3. She began to have/experience labor pains this morning.
4. She had a difficult labor.
• the Labour Party of the United Kingdom or another part of the Commonwealth of Nations
1. a proposal that is opposed by Labour
• Verb
• to do work
1. Workers labored in the vineyard.
2. He labored for several years as a miner.
• to work hard in order to achieve something
1. She has labored in vain to convince them to accept her proposal.
2. Both sides continue to labor [=struggle] to find a solution.
3. We should honor those who labored so long to make the truth known.
• to move or proceed with effort
1. The truck labored up the hill.
2. I have been laboring through this book for months.
• to repeat or stress something too much or too often
1. She has a tendency to labor the obvious.
2. I don't want to labor [=belabor] the point, but I think I should mention again that we are running out of time.