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Learn to pronounce la·bor

/ˈlābər/
noun
  1. work, especially hard physical work.
    "the price of repairs includes labor and parts"
    synonyms: work, toil, employment, exertion, industry, industriousness, toiling, hard work, hard labor, drudgery, effort, the sweat of one's brow, donkey work, menial work, slog, grind, sweat, elbow grease, graft, travail, moil, task, job, chore, undertaking, mission, commission, assignment
  2. (in the UK or Canada) the Labour Party.
    "the Labour leader"
  3. the process of childbirth, especially the period from the start of uterine contractions to delivery.
    "his wife is in labor"
    synonyms: childbirth, birth, birthing, delivery, nativity, contractions, labor pains, labor pangs, labor throes, parturition, confinement, accouchement, lying-in, childbed, travail

verb
  1. work hard; make great effort.
    "they labored from dawn to dusk"
    synonyms: work (hard), toil, slave (away), grub away, plod away, grind away, sweat away, struggle, strive, exert oneself, overwork, work one's fingers to the bone, work like a Trojan/dog/slave, slog away, kill oneself, plug away, put one's back into something, peg away, graft, drudge, travail, moil
  2. have difficulty in doing something despite working hard.
    "Coley labored against confident opponents"
    synonyms: strive, struggle, endeavor, work, try hard, make every effort, do one's best, do one's utmost, do all one can, give (it/something) one's all, go all out, fight, push, be at pains, put oneself out, apply oneself, exert oneself, bend/fall/lean over backwards, give it one's best shot, pull out all the stops
  3. (of a woman in childbirth) be in labor.
    "she labored very well and comfortably because she was relaxed"

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