Labor

Definitions: Labor

Labor

Noun

1. Productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill".

2. A social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field".

3. Concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours".

4. An organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action especially via labor unions (especially the leaders of this movement).

5. A political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and the socialization of key industries.

6. The federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners; created in 1913.

7. Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted; "he prepared for great undertakings".

Verb

1. Exert oneself, 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".

2. Work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "labor" was first used: some time in the early 14th century. (references)

Satire

Dream Interpretation

Labor

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Labor

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Labor

Action

Noun: action, performance; doing; Verb: perpetration; exercise, excitation; movement, operation, evolution, work; labor; (exertion); praxis, execution; procedure; (conduct); handicraft; business; agency; (power at work).

Employ oneself, ply one's task; officiate, have in hand; (business); labor; be at work; pursue a course; shape one's course; (conduct).

Government

Office of the president, office of the prime minister, cabinet; senate, house of representatives, parliament; council; courts, supreme court; state, interior, labor, health and human services, defense, education, agriculture, justice, commerce, treasury; Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI; Central Intelligence Agency, CIA; National Institutes of Health, NIH; Postal Service, Post Office; Federal Aviation Administration, FAA.

Production

Bringing forth; Verb:: parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics; geniture; gestation; (maturation); assimilation; evolution, development, growth; entelechy; fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation; fecundation, impregnation; albumen.

Crosswords: Labor

German (lab, laboratory), Hungarian (lab), Latin (be ready to fall, begin to sink, decline, distress, drop, effort, err, exertion, fatigue, give way, glide, go wrong, hardip, hardship, job, labor, laboratory, pain, perish, sink, slide, slip, slip and fall, slip away, suffering, to sink, toil, totter, waver, work), Papiamen (chore, job, work), Portuguese (job, labor, labour, work, works), Spanish (labor, labour, task, toil, work).

The first stages of labor can take hours! (Look Who's Talking; writing credit: Amy Heckerling)

Either I get a formal response to my request for the same lunch allowance as Henry or I shall withdraw my labor. How would you like that? (Drop the Dead Donkey; writing credit: Andy Hamilton; Guy Jenkin)

Never let a stranger in your cab, in your house or in your heart unless he is a friend of labor. (Hoffa; writing credit: David Mamet)

My name's Little Cletus and I'm here to tell you a few things about child labor laws, ok? They're silly and outdated. (Zoolander; writing credit: Drake Sather; Ben Stiller)

And with union labor. (Where the Boys Are; writing credit: Glendon Swarthout; George Wells)

Now the labor leader's screamin' when they close the missile plants, ("I Ain't Marching Anymore"; performing artist: Phil Ochs)

Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the ''blessing'' of idleness and won for us the ''curse'' of labor. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Love's Labor Won (1948)

Child Labor (1913)

Thirty Days at Hard Labor (1912)

Children Who Labor (1912)

Love Molds Labor (1911)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Labor Ready Inc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Labor Market in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1999 (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• DAL'ALU SA: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

• TOKAI ALUMINUM FOIL CO., LTD. (TOHAI ARU: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

• AMALGAMATED BEVERAGE INDUSTRIES LTD: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis (Labor Productivity Series) (reference)

• ANR PIPELINE COMPANY: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis (Labor Productivity Series) (reference)

• ANSON BANCORP, INC.: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• California Labor Market Bulletin (reference)

• Certified Labor Law Service (reference)

• Chiltons Labor Guide And Parts Manual (reference)

• Detroit Labor News (reference)

• Employment & Labor Lawcast - Audio Cassette (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Labor Pains (reference)

• AD Police Files: Love's Labor Lost (reference)

• Yoga for Pregnancy Labor & Birth (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Labor Days (reference)

• Welcome to Labor Land (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Special Deliverease: The Essential Labor Comfort Kit (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Harvesting leaf lettuce by manual labor. Yuma, Az.Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

U. S. Army Hospital Center, Mars, France. : View of the hospital constructed for the medical corps by contract labor under supervision of the engineers.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Members of the Subcommittee on Health, Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee, on an inspection tour of the Clinical Center].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Male assistance during labor in Bali].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Labor scene among the Wakambas (western portion of Central Africa).Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Malaria control in native labor camp].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Comanche Labor. / Sketch by Major W.H. Forwood, Surgeon U.S.A.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

The Mountain In Labor / HB.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Don't make your growing pains labor pains.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence; and I recommend to them that, in all case when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. (Abraham Lincoln)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Twelve of our crew were dead by immoderate labor and ill food, the rest were in a very weak condition.

The man who has actually paid for his farm with labor on it is so rare that every neighbor can point to him.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Complicated labor and delivery. (references)

Careful control of blood sugar levels remains important even during labor. (references)

Severe oxygen shortage in the brain or trauma to the head during labor and delivery. (references)

Business

Otherwise, child labor is not permitted. (references)

One important issue is the cost of labor. (references)

Non-wage labor costs are also quite high. (references)

Children

China

Children also are trafficked for labor purposes. (references)

Pakistan

Children sometimes are kidnaped to be used as forced labor, for ransom, or to seek revenge against an enemy. (references)

Bolivia

It also regulates adoptions and tightens protection against exploitative child labor and violence against children. (references)

Civil Liberties

Iran

Most subsist on itinerant labor, often moving from place to place within the country. (references)

Austria

The overwhelming majority of all Bosnian refugees have been integrated into the labor market. (references)

Burma

The crosses often have been replaced with pagodas, which at times were built with forced labor. (references)

Economic History

Djibouti

Further, labor is expensive. (references)

Kuwait

Kuwait has a diverse labor force. (references)

Tunisia

TUNISIAN LABOR IS READILY AVAILABLE. (references)

Human Rights

Chad

The law authorizes forced labor in prison. (references)

Burundi

The armed forces have a separate judicial system, and there is a labor court. (references)

Burma

ICRC visits to labor camps began in March 2000, and continued during the year. (references)

Indigenous People

Cameroon

While no legal discrimination exists, other groups often treat Pygmies as inferior and sometimes subject them to unfair and exploitative labor practices. (references)

Panama

Indigenous workers consistently do not receive the basic rights provided by the Labor Code, such as minimum wage, social security benefits, termination pay, and job security. (references)

Congo

Many Pygmies, possibly including children, have been exploited as cheap labor and discriminated against in employment, education, and the health sector by Bantus; however, there was no information regarding the extent of the problems during the year. (references)

Minorities

Netherlands

They must submit their annual social action plans, including recruitment targets, to the regional labor bureaus. (references)

Czech Republic

Some employers refuse to hire Roma and ask local labor offices not to send Romani applicants for advertised positions. (references)

Netherlands

Most complaints concerned the labor market, including denial of promotion, discrimination in the work place, unequal pay, and dismissal. (references)

Political Economy

PAKISTAN

Illegal bonded labor is widespread. (references)

HUNGARY

Special labor courts enforce labor laws. (references)

Dominican Republic

There continued to be reports of forced labor. (references)

Political Rights

Argentina

For most of the year, there was one female cabinet-level official--the Minister of Labor, Employment, and Human Resources Training. (references)

Bahrain

Majlis members are selected to represent major constituent groups, including representatives from the business, labor, professional, and religious communities. (references)

United Arab Emirates

Other women in senior government positions include an undersecretary in the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs and an assistant undersecretary for planning and evaluation in the Ministry of Education. (references)

Trade

Bulgaria

Production and labor costs are low with well-trained and highly qualified labor available. (references)

El Salvador

E. Authorization of the Ministry of Finance and of the Ministry of Labor for machinery and industrial equipment. (references)

Uae

These free trade zones offer incentives and exemptions ranging from tax holidays to assistance in recruiting labor. (references)

Travel

Italy

The Italian employer files an application at a Provincial Labor Office. (references)

Taiwan

Note: Taiwan's Labor Day is on May 1st. Most private firms, especially factories, close on that day. (references)

Costa Rica

Demonstrations or strikes, related to labor disputes or other local issues, occur occasionally in Costa Rica. (references)

Women

Morocco

Rural women perform difficult physical labor. (references)

Greece

Women also are underrepresented in labor unions' leadership. (references)

Guyana

The Women's Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Labor monitors the legal rights of women. (references)

Worker Rights

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Courts hear labor disputes. (references)

Denmark

Export industries do not use child labor. (references)

Korea

Nongovernmental labor unions do not exist. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Sacrifice of labor

Expressions using "labor": a labor of hercules ♦ A labor of love ♦ american Federation of Labor ♦ american Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations ♦ american Labor Party ♦ be in labor ♦ casual labor ♦ cheap labor ♦ common labor ♦ department of Commerce and Labor ♦ department of Labor ♦ dilute labor ♦ dilution of labor ♦ division of labor ♦ embodied labor ♦ false labor ♦ forced labor ♦ foreign labor ♦ Free labor ♦ free labor market ♦ hard labor ♦ in labor ♦ indirect labor cost ♦ induction of labor ♦ international Labor Organization ♦ Knights of labor ♦ labor agreement ♦ labor along ♦ labor audit ♦ labor benefits ♦ labor camp ♦ labor certification ♦ labor class ♦ labor coach ♦ Labor Complications ♦ labor contract ♦ labor costs ♦ labor court ♦ labor day ♦ labor Department ♦ labor dispute ♦ labor exchange ♦ labor flux ♦ labor for ♦ labor for smb.'s feudal lord ♦ labor force ♦ labor grade ♦ labor in vain ♦ labor income ♦ labor intensive ♦ labor law ♦ labor leader ♦ labor management ♦ labor market ♦ labor mobility ♦ labor movement ♦ labor of love ♦ Labor Onset ♦ labor organizer ♦ labor pain ♦ labor pains ♦ Labor Party ♦ labor party member ♦ labor pool ♦ labor power ♦ Labor Presentation ♦ labor relations ♦ labor reletions ♦ labor resources ♦ labor rights ♦ labor room ♦ labor saving ♦ labor Secretary ♦ labor shortage ♦ labor spy ♦ labor supply ♦ labor through ♦ labor time record ♦ labor troubles ♦ labor turnover ♦ labor under ♦ labor under a delusion ♦ labor under an illusion ♦ labor union ♦ labor unionist ♦ Labor Unions ♦ labor up a hill ♦ labor ward ♦ labor welfare act ♦ labor with child ♦ Lip labor ♦ live labor ♦ local labor ♦ lost labor ♦ management and labor ♦ manual labor ♦ materialized labor ♦ migratory labor ♦ ministry of labor ♦ mobility of labor ♦ mountain in labor. Additional references.

Beginning with "labor": labor-force, labor-intensive, labor-management, Labor-saving.

Ending with "labor": Day-labor, lip-labor.

Containing "labor": Farmer-Labor Party, slave-labor camp.

Afrikaan

arbeidsmark (labor market, labour, labour market). (various references)

Albanian

lodhem (fag, flag, get tired, grow weary, labour, strain oneself, tire), lindje (accouchement, birth, dawn, delivery, East, generation, genesis, giving birth, labour, nascence, nascency, nativity, Orient, origination, procreation, progeniture, rise), laburist (laborist, laborite, labour, labourist, labourite), shtjelloj (develop, discuss, evolve, explain, explicate, labour, treat), punoj (do, drive, employ, engage, go, labour, operate, recruit, serve, work), punë (affair, affairs, appointment, avocation, berth, business, concern, concernment, deed, doing, duty, employ, engagement, function, job, labour, make, making, metier, movement, occupation, office, operation, practice, question, service, shebang, slot, task, task-work, thing, work), ngul këmbë (insist, labour, stickle), mundohem (agonize, endeavor, endeavour, fag, labour, plod, sweat, toil, try), klasë punëtore (labour), i punës (industrial, laboring, labour, labouring), fuqi punëtore (labor power, labour, manpower), dhimbjet e lindjes (labor pains, labour, labour pains), detyrë (assignation, assignment, burden, business, chore, devoir, duty, exercise, job, labour, mission, obligation, office, ought, place, project, seal, task, task-work, tie, trust). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كادح (drudging, industrious, laborer, laborious, labour, labourer, plodder, slogger), ‏كدح (drudge, drudgery, elbow grease, fag, grub, hard work, labour, moil, plod, proletarianize, slave, slavery, slog, sweat, sweat blood, swot, toil, travail, work hard), ‏مهمة مضنية (labour), ‏غرفة الولادة (labour), ‏عمل (act, action, aggravation, berth, business, deed, elaborate, employment, engagement, fag, feat, function, gird on, job, labour, making, occupation, place, pursuit, racket, see, situation, task, work), ‏جهد (dint, effort, exert, exertion, labour, overload, overstrain, overwork, pain, pressure, spirt, spurt, strain, stress, tension, worry), ‏إشتغل (dabble, job, labour, put in, work), ‏ألم الولاده (labour), ‏أرهق (beat, break, exhaust, fatigue, gruel, harass, labour, lie, load, overload, overstrain, pump, run down, saddle, soak, squeeze, tax, try, tucker, weary, weigh, weigh down, weight), ‏ثمرة جهد (labour). (various references)

Bulgarian 

труд (labour, pains, trouble, work), движа се бавно (jog, labour, trickle), изпитвам родилни мъки (labour), лейбъристите (labour), люшкам се (labour, sway, welter), английската лейбъристка партия (labour), жертва съм (labour), затруднен съм (labour), мъча се (agonize, labour, seek, suffer, toil, try, tug, writhe), движа с усилие (labour), тежка работа (donkey work, elbow grease, fag, grind, job, labour, moil, murder, plod, slavery, task-work, toil, warm work), старая се (endeavor, endeavour, exert oneself, labour, study, try), трудов (labour, occupational, work, working), трудя се (fag, labour, plod, toil), работа (affair, avocation, berth, billet, business, char, concern, dealings, do, employ, employment, engagement, function, job, labour, lay, line, matter, occasions, occupation, operation, part, performance, place, ploy, proceedings, proposition, run, running, service, shebang, shop, show, situation, thing, undertaking, work, working, workmanship), работнически (labour, operative, working), работна ръка (labour, manpower), раждам (be confined, bear, beget, breed, bring forth, drop, fawn, give, give birth, have, labour, lie in wait, mother, procreate, produce, spawn, throw, whelp), разработвам подробно (labour, write up), родилни мъки (labor pains, labour, labour pains, pains, parturition, throes, travail), усилия (labour, labours, pains, striving), обработвам (arrange, belabor, belabour, cultivate, cure, curry, farm, husband, labour, plough, process, retrieve, till, tool, work, work up). (various references)

Chinese 

功夫 (art, effort, kung fu, skill), 劳方 (labour), 劬 (knit the brows), 工夫 (effort, work), 工 (craft, profession, skill, trade, work, worker), 勞工 , 勞動 , 分娩 (delivery). (various references)

Czech

pracovat k porodu (labour), pracovat (act, engage in, function, go out to work, labour, operate, perform, work, work at), práce (employment, job, labour, pidgin, pursuit, service, task, undertaking, work, working), porodní bolesti (labor pains, labour, labour pains, parturition, throes), namáhat se (exert oneself, labour, strain oneself, strive, trouble), námaha (effort, exertion, labour, pains, strain, sweat), dřina (drudgery, elbow grease, fag, grind, grindery, labour, moil, slog, stinker, sweat, toil), dřít (hurt, labour, plod, rub), dìlnictvo (labour, workpeople), úkol (assignment, job, labour, mission, objective, part, stint, target, task, undertaking). (various references)

Danish

arbejde (activity, chore, effort, job, labour, live labor, live labour, position, work). (various references)

Dutch

arbeidsopgave (labour, live labor, live labour). (various references)

Esperanto

labormerkato (labor market, labour market), laborkonflikto (labor dispute, labour dispute), laborista movado (labor movement, labour movement), laborintensiva (labor-intensive, labour-intensive), labordivido (division of labor, division of labour), laborborso (employment exchange, labor exchange, labour exchange), dungperejo (employment exchange, labor exchange, labour exchange), dungokontrakto (labor agreement, labour agreement, labour contract). (various references)

Farsi 

کوشش کردن (Assay, Attempt, Bend, Peg, Strive, Struggle, Try), کوشش (Assay, Attempt, Bustle, Effort, Endeavor, Fist, Muss, Scramble, Strain, Stretch, Trial, Try, Tug), کارگر (Effective, Employee, Laborer, Operative, Proletarian, Worker, Workingman, Workman, Workpeople), حزب کارگر, تقلاکردن (Agonize, Attempt, Heave, Scramble, Slog, Struggle, Tug, Wrestle), زحمت کشیدن (Muck, Plod, Toil), زحمت (Difficulty, Discomfort, Inconvenience, Pain, Torment, Trouble, Tug), عمله (Laborer, Worker), رنج (Agony, Bale, Discomfort, Pain, Throe, Toil, Trial, Tribulation), دردزایمان (Travail). (various references)

Finnish

työ (act, deed, effort, employment, job, labour, live labor, live labour, occupation, task, work). (various references)

French

labeur (labour), travailler (labour), travail actif (labour, live labor, live labour), travail (labour), peiner, mission pénible, mission difficile, fruit de dur labeur, douleurs de l'accouchement (labor pains, labour pains). (various references)

Frisian

arbeidsskeel (labor dispute, labour dispute), arbeidsmerk (labor market, labour market), arbeidskontrakt (labor agreement, labour agreement, labour contract), arbeidsburo (employment exchange, labor exchange, labour exchange), arbeidsakkoart (labor agreement, labour agreement, labour contract). (various references)

German

arbeit (assigned job, chore, effort, employment, job, labour, live labor, live labour, paper, piece of work, pile, project, script, stint, task, test, work, working). (various references)

Greek 

κόποσ (fatigue, labour, moil, toil), κοπιάζω (labour, moil, take pains to), μόχθοσ (labour, toil), ωδίνεσ (labour, throes, travail), εργάζομαι (fabricate, labour, operate, process, tool, work), εργασία (business, employment, job, labour, operation, task, work, workmanship), ενεργός εργασία (labour, live labor, live labour). (various references)

Hebrew 

לעמול (labour, make effort, moil, slog, take pains, toil, travail, work), לעבו�" (labour, serve, till, toil, work), עמל (exertion, labour, moil, toil), עבו�"�" (creation, labour, service, toil, work). (various references)

Hungarian

vajúdás (child birth, childbirth, labor pains, labour, labour pains, lying in, pain, pains, parturition, throes, travail), szülés (accouchement, birth, child birth, childbirth, confinement, deliverance, giving birth, labour, lying in, parturition), munka (chore, civil engineering, engineering, job, jog-trot, labour, non-exacting work, press of business, task, to be on the road, work, workmanship), munkaerő (labour, labour force, labour power, manpower), munkásosztály (labour, working class), munkások (labour, people), dolog (affair, business, business deal, case, chose, clinker, close call, crackerjack, dishonour, job, labour, lash-up, ledger, matter, mite, number, object, quickie, quicky, shebang, shocker, startler, stuff, the cards were stacked against me, thing, work). (various references)

Indonesian

perburuhan (chase). (various references)

Italian

lavoro effettivo (labour, live labor, live labour), lavoro attivo (labour, live labor, live labour), lavoro (achievement, business, chore, effort, employment, job, labour, occupation, output, shop, stint, task, work, working, yield, yoke), lavorare faticosamente (labour), lavorare (do business, fabricate, hew, labour, operate, process, to fabricate, to machine, to process, to work, tool, work), laburista (labor party member, labour, labour party member, labourite), travaglio (anguish, cattle crush, crate, crush, distress, holding crate, labour, pain, suffering, trouble), manodopera (labour, labour force, manpower), faticare (have difficulty, labour, slog, tire, toil, work hard), fatica (difficulty, effort, endeavour, exertion, fag, fatigue, labour, pain, strain, toil, trouble), doglie (labour, throes), avere le doglie (labour), affaticarsi (labour, overstrain, sweat, tire). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

労苦 (hardship, toil), 労働力 (manpower, working force), 労作 (laborious task, toil), 労役 (toil, work), 労務 (service, work), 労り (attention, carefulness, illness, service, sympathy, trouble), 労 (comforting, pain, puttingto work, striving, thanking, toil, trouble), 働き (ability, achievement, action, activity, conjugation, function, inflection, motion, movement, operation, talent, work, workings), 働 (work), 手数 (handling, number of moves, trouble), 役務 (service), 勤労 (diligent service, exertion). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

き�"ろう (diligent service, exertion), どう (body, change, child, confusion, copper, foolishness, frame, how, how about, ibid., in what way, motion, prefix to building meaning "magnificent", servant, the said, the same, trunk, work), いたわり (attention, carefulness, illness, service, sympathy, trouble), ろうさく (laborious task, toil), ろうどうりょく (manpower, working force), ろうむ (service, work), ろうえき (toil, work), ろうく (aged body, hardship, one's old bones, toil), ろう (age, belvedere, bend over, comforting, lookout, old age, old people, puttingto work, striving, thanking, the aged, the old, toil, tower, trouble, turret, wax), はたらき (ability, achievement, action, activity, conjugation, function, inflection, motion, movement, operation, talent, work, workings), てすう (handling, trouble), えきむ (service). (various references)

Korean 

노동 (labour). (various references)

Pig Latin

aborlay.(various references)

Portuguese

lidar (coping, fight, get along, labour, struggle, toil), labutar (labour, moiety, moil, plod, plug, scrub, stew, toil, travail, tug), labor (job, labour, work, works), trabalho activo (labour, live labor, live labour), trabalho (ado, craftsmanship, effort, employment, fabricate, function, hard up, job, job-, labour, machine finishing, machining, mark, needs, operation, pain, painstaking, process, processing, service, space, task, tool, work, working, workmanship, works), trabalhar (behave, cultivate, dig, do, faggot, function, fund, labour, mole, swot, to work, tool, work), tarefa (assigned job, assignment, job, labour, stint, task), sentir dores do parto (labour), ocupação (avocation, business, busyness, calling, chore, duty, employ, employment opportunity, engagement, job, labour, occupancy, occupation, office, pluck, profession, racket, service, sit-in, tenure, work, works), obrigação (bond, bond certificate, burden, business, commitment, debenture, debenture bond, debenture stock, debt security, devoir, due, duty, engagement, function, incumbency, indebtedness, investment bond, job, labour, loan stock debenture, must, obligation, office, onus, ought, promissory, responsibility, shall, trust, undertaking, would), mão-de-obra (labour, manpower drain, workmanship), instável (ambulatory, astatic, baffling, bumpy, cavy, changeable, erratum, fickle, incandesce, inconstant, infirm, kid glove, lubricous, mobile home, mutable, off balance, slippery, slippy, temperamental, ticklish, Tippy, tottering, unreliable, unsound, unstable, unsteady, variable, wayward, wonky), elaborar (elaboration, finish, formulate, labour, make, make out, prepare), dores do parto (labor party, labour party). (various references)

Romanian

lucru (act, activity, article, belongings, business, cert, deed, employment, happening, implement, job, labour, matter, object, occurrence, operation, predecessor, service, situation, thing, things, traps, work, working), lucra (bungle, cultivate, do, farm, function, labour, operate, run, till, toil, work), trudã (drudgery, elbow grease, grub, labour, moil, suffering, sufferings, sweat, tiredness, toil, trouble, work), clasã muncitoare (labour, the workers, the working class), durerile facerii (accouchement, labour, pain), effort (drive, effort, endeavor, endeavour, exertion, force, labour, pain, pluck, push, strain, stretch, struggle, tug), elabora amãnunţit (labour), expune amãnunţit (develop, labour), fi în chinurile naşterii (labour), muncã (grub, job, labour, operation, service, task, work, working), caznã (agony, efforts, labour, moil, question, rack, torment, torture), strãdanie (effort, endeavor, endeavour, labour, painstaking, push, striving, struggle), trudi (drudge, fag, grind, labour, moil, sweat, toil, torture, weary), munci (do, endeavor, endeavour, labour, rack, suffer, till, toil, torment, torture, work), munci la (labour), muncitorii (labour, the workers, worker), produs al muncii (labour), redacta amãnunţit (labour), silinţã (application, diligence, effort, endeavor, endeavour, labour, sedulousness, zeal), fi în durerile facerii (labor with child, labour, labour with child, lie in). (various references)

Russian 

рабочий класс (labour, working class), рабочие (labour), работа (dead horse, duty, job, labour, making, operation, proceedings, service, work, working), трудовой (labour), трудиться (fag, labour, toil, work), труд (labour), кропотливо разрабатывать (labour), мучиться родами (labour), лейбористский (labour), потрудиться (labour, toil). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

previše dobro nešto obraditi (labour), delo (act, action, deed, fact, labour, opus, piece), obraditi (farm, labour, process), patiti (dree, labour, suffer), petljati se (intermeddle, labour), porođaj (birth, child birth, delivery, giving birth, labour, parturition), porođajne muke (labour), biti u radnom odnosu (labour), potruditi (labour), truditi (labour, try), proleterijat (labour, proletariat), rad (business, labour, open, running, willing, work, working), raditi (do, labour, operate, perform, practise, work), radni (labour, occupational, operating, working), radnička klasa (labour), radnički (laborer, labour, labourer, worker, workman), porođajni (labour). (various references)

Spanish

trabajo (assignment, chore, craft, diploma, discourse, dissertation, effort, elaboration, employ, enterprise, job, labour, lieu, mark, occupation, ploy, task, toil, work, working), parto (accouchement, birth, calving, calving down, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, confinement, delivery, freshening, labour, lying in, parthian, parturition, partus), laborar (hew, labour, toil, work). (various references)

Swedish

arbete (activity, chore, effort, employment, job, jobbing, labour, live labor, live labour, operation, undertaking, work, working, workmanship, writing), arbeta (labour, ship off, to work, toil, work). (various references)

Thai

ใช้เวลาและความพยายามมาก (labour), พยายามต่อสู้เพื่อจุ�"มุ่งหมาย (labour), ชนชั้นแรงงาน (labour), ทำงานหนัก (drudge, grub, labour), กระทำ�"้วยความยากลำบาก (labour), งานที่ใช้พละกำลัง (labour), � าระ (beeswax, burden, labour, load). (various references)

Turkish

lafı uzatmak (belabor, belabour, go into details, labour), uğraşmak (agonize, attack, be at war with, be occupied in doing, be occupied with doing, come at, contend, cope, deal, endeavor, endeavour, engage in, exert oneself, fight, get at, go in for, grapple, groove, haze, labour, make an effort, mess around with, mess with, moil, monkey around with, monkey with, pick on, push, seek, set to, strive, strive against, struggle, tackle, toil, try hard, tug, tussle, work away, work hard, wrestle), işgücü (labor force, labour, labour force, manpower), işçi sınıfı (labour, proletariat, proletariate, workers, working class), hizmet (duty, employment, function, labor intensive, labour, labour intensive, ministration, ministry, service), emek vermek (labour, lucubrate), emek (exertion, labour, pain, pains, toil, work), doğum sancısı çekmek (be in labor, be in labour, labour, travail), doğum sancısı (labour, travail), alın teriyle yapmak, çalışmak (aim, aim at, behave, catch, endeavor, endeavour, fire, function, labour, operate, practice, practise, serve, start, start up, struggle, study, try, work), çalışma (action, exercise, gear, job of work, labour, practice, praxis, priming, running, starting, study, training, work, working, workout), çaba harcamak (endeavor, endeavour, labour, push, rustle). (various references)

Turkmen 

zдhmet. (various references)

Ukranian 

робітничий клас (labour, working class), робота (action, business, job, labour, occupation, operation, performance, proceedings, work, working), трудитися (drudge, labour, work), лейбористський (labour), працювати (act, go, labour, open, operate, work), праця (employment, job, labour, occupation, proceedings, service, work), докладати зусиль (be at pains, labour). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lao động công việc (labour), nhân công đau đẻ những cố gắng vô ích (labour), những nỗ lực uổng công (labour), công việc nặng nhọc tầng lớp lao động (labour). (various references)

Welsh

llafurio (till, toil), ymorchestu (strive). (various references)

aerumna, aerumnae, aerumnas, aerumnis, conlabora, conlaborantes, inoperantur, labor, labor laboris, labora, laborabis, laborabit, laborabunt, laboramus, laborans, laborant, laborantem, laborantes, laborantis, laborare, laboras, laborasti, laborastis, laborat, laboratis, laboraturus, laboraverat, laboraverim, laboraverit, laboraverunt, laboravi, laboravit, labore, laborem, labores, laboret, laboretis, laboribus, laboris, laboro, laborum, moliaris, moliebantur, moliebatur, molimur, molirentur, negotium, nisi, nisusque, nitebantur, nitebatur, nitens, nitentes, niteris, nitimini, nititur, nituntur, nixa, nixor, opera, operabantur, operaberis, operabitur, operabor, operabuntur, operamini, operando, operandum, operans, operantem, operantes, operanti, operantibus, operantium, operantur, operare, operarentur, operaretur, operari, operaris, operata, operati, operator, operatorem, operatum, operatur, operatus, operatusque, operemini, operemur, operetur, operor, opus, opus operis. (various references)

en travail. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "labor": laboratories, laboratory, labored, laborer, laborers, laboring, laborious, laboriously, laboriousness, laboriousnesses, laborite, laborites, labors, laborsaving. (additional references)

Words ending with "labor": antilabor, belabor, mislabor, nonlabor, overlabor, prolabor. (additional references)

Words containing "labor": belabored, belaboring, belabors, collaborate, collaborated, collaborates, collaborating, collaboration, collaborationism, collaborationisms, collaborationist, collaborationists, collaborations, collaborative, collaboratively, collaboratives, collaborator, collaborators, elaborate, elaborated, elaborately, elaborateness, elaboratenesses, elaborates, elaborating, elaboration, elaborations, elaborative, mislabored, mislaboring, mislabors, overelaborate, overelaborated, overelaborates, overelaborating, overelaboration, overelaborations, overlabored, overlaboring, overlabors, unelaborate. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Labor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aborm, aborr, Albar, Albaro, albir, Albor, Albou, Albro, Albrow, albur, Alor, cabor, Elabor, fabor, habur, jabor, Klarbar, Labem, labeo, laber, labet, labex, Labit, Laboa, labon, Labora, labore, laboro, labour, labur, labyr, lador, lamor, lanor, laor, lavor, lazor, Lebar, Lebor, libo, Liboi, libor, libro, licor, lior, llebar, Lopburi, lubr, mabor, sabor, vabor. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bolar, boral, lobar.

-1 letter: boar, bola, bora, oral.

-2 letters: abo, alb, arb, bal, bar, boa, bra, bro, lab, lar, lob, oar, ora, orb, rob.

-3 letters: ab, al, ar, ba, bo, la, lo, or.

+1 letter: aboral, bailor, barlow, borals, boreal, bromal, labors, labour, robalo.

+2 letters: allobar, bailors, barlows, belabor, bipolar, bloater, bolivar, bollard, borstal, broadly, bromals, earlobe, garboil, kilobar, labored, laborer, labours, labroid, lobular, orbital, parboil, robalos, ropable, rowable, rubeola, suboral, tollbar.

+3 letters: abnormal, aborally, absolver, adorable, adorably, albacore, albicore, algaroba, allobars, arboreal, bachelor, balloter, ballroom, balmoral, banderol, bankroll, bannerol, bargello, baronial, barstool, beadroll, beclamor, beglamor, belabors, belabour, biovular, blazoner, blazonry, bloaters, blowhard, bolivars, bollards, borstals, braciola, braciole, brocatel, cabriole, carbinol, carbolic, carbonyl, carboxyl, cornball, earlobes, exorable, forbidal, fordable, forkball, formable, garboils, glabrous, globular, growable, kilobars, kohlrabi, laborers, laboring, laborite, laboured, labourer, labrador, labroids, lapboard, larboard, leeboard, mislabor, nonlabor, oblatory, operable, operably, orbitals, outbrawl, overable, panbroil, parabola, parboils, portable, portably, pourable, probable, probably, prolabor, provable, provably, rollback, rubeolar, rubeolas, sorbable, sortable, sortably, sourball, storable, strobila, subpolar, subsolar, tollbars, trilobal, workable.

+4 letters: abnormals, abolisher, absoluter, absolvers, airmobile, albacores, albatross, albicores, algarobas, algarroba, ambrosial, antilabor, astrolabe, bachelors, balloters, ballrooms, balmorals, banderole, banderols, bandoleer, bandolier, bankrolls, bannerols, barcarole, bargellos, baritonal, baroquely, barstools, beadrolls, beclamors, beglamors, beglamour, belabored, belabours, betrothal, billboard, binocular, blazoners, blockader, blowhards, boardlike, boardwalk, bolivares, boulevard, braciolas, bracioles, bracteole, bricolage, broadleaf, broadloom, broadtail, brocatels, bromelain, bromeliad, bronchial, broomball, burladero, caballero, cabrioles, cabriolet, carambola, carbachol, carbazole, carbinols, carbolics, carbonyls, carboxyls, charbroil, clapboard, clipboard, colorable, colorably, corbicula, cornballs, coverable, crossable, droppable, elaborate, embryonal, favorable, favorably, forbidals, forgeable, forkballs, groupable, harborful, honorable, honorably, hyperbola, ignorable, isallobar, laborious, laborites, labourers, labouring, labradors, lapboards, larboards, leeboards, liberator, libration, libratory, memorable, memorably, microbial, mislabors, moldboard, myrobalan, nonarable, nonverbal, orbicular, orderable, outbrawls, overlabor, panbroils, parabolas, parabolic, parboiled, porbeagle, portables, probables, razorbill, removable, removably, revocable, revokable, rhizobial, ribosomal, roadblock, rollbacks, rotatable, sailboard, sourballs, storables, strobilae, subnormal, tabulator, tailboard, tolerable, tolerably, trilobate, vocabular, wallboard, worktable.

+5 letters: abnormally, abolishers, aboriginal, abortively, absorbable, adsorbable, affordable, affordably, algarrobas, ambulatory, approvable, approvably, arboreally, astrolabes, banderoles, bandoleers, bandoliers, bankrolled, bankroller, barcaroles, barcarolle, bardolater, bardolatry, barleycorn, beclamored, beglamored, beglamours, behavioral, belaboring, belaboured, betrothals, billboards, binoculars, bipolarity, bipolarize, blackamoor, blackboard, blackthorn, blastoderm, blastomere, blastopore, blazonries, blockaders, boardwalks, borderland, botryoidal, boulevards, bracteoles, brazilwood, bricolages, broadcloth, broadlooms, broadscale, broadtails, brocatelle, bromelains, bromeliads, broomballs, burladeros, caballeros, cabriolets, calibrator, carambolas, carbachols, carbazoles, carbonless, carbonylic, carboxylic, celebrator, chalkboard, charbroils, clapboards, clipboards, clofibrate, collarbone, columbaria, comparable, comparably, coralbells, coralberry, corbiculae, debonairly, deformable, deplorable, deplorably, deportable, elaborated, elaborates, emblazoner, emblazonry, endorsable, exportable, factorable, fibroblast, flashboard, floorboard, floribunda, footballer, forgivable, forgivably, formidable, formidably, governable, halocarbon, harborfuls, harborless, honourable, hyperbolae, hyperbolas, importable, improbable, improbably, improvable, inexorable, inexorably, inoperable, isallobars, kohlrabies, labiovelar, laboratory, liberation, liberators, librations, linerboard, lobsterman, loganberry, lubricator, mislabored, moldboards, myrobalans, neoliberal, nondurable, nonlibrary, obdurately, obligatory, obliterate, observable, observably, orbiculate, outbrawled, overbleach, overbrutal, overlabors, panbroiled, paraboloid, parboiling, pardonable, pardonably, personable, phlebogram, ponderable, porbeagles, portabella, portabello, procambial, procurable, profitable, profitably, promotable, propagable, proverbial, radiolabel, razorbills, reasonable, reasonably, reclosable, recordable, recoupable, reformable, removeable, reportable, resolvable, restorable, revolvable, rhomboidal, riboflavin, roadblocks, rockabilly, roundtable, sailboards, sailboater, salubrious, scabrously, softballer, suborbital, tabulators, tailboards, tailorbird, unprovable, unworkable, urbanology, vocabulary, wallboards, worktables.

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