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Definitions: Labour |
LabourNoun1. A social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field". 2. Concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours". 3. A political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and the socialization of key industries. 4. Productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill". Verb1. Work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long". 2. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "labour" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
"Labour" is a common misspelling or typo for: labor. |
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Food & Agriculture | The act of a ship pitching and rolling heavily in a turbulent sea, in such a manner as to bring dangerous strain upon the hull, propelling machinery, masts, or rigging. Source: European Union. (references) |
Labor | The work, both manual and supervisory, actually performed in the course of a process or job. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The total sum of human effort that is used in the productive process, whether it is the creation of goods or the provision of services. The concept includes both the total number of hours worked and the physical strength and skill that is expended in the process. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Medicine | The process by which fetus and placenta are expelled from the uterus. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| LAS | English | Labour Accounting System | Statistics, Labor |
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Synonyms: LabourSynonyms: childbed (n), confinement (n), labor (n), lying-in (n), parturiency (n), proletariat (n), toil (n), travail (n), working class (n), dig (v), drive (v), drudge (v), fag (v), grind (v), moil (v), push (v), tug (v). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: labouring (transportationmedicinelaboreuropean union, laborfood & agriculture). |
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Lyrics | My labour is no easier ("LADY IN BLACK"; performing artist: Uriah Heep) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hard Labour (1973) Labour College (1966) Camera on Labour No. 2 (1956) The Labour Leader (1917) | |
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Sir Thomas More | The things, good Lord, that I pray for, give me thy grace to labour for. Amen. |
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John Locke | 1690 | God commanded, and his wants forced him to labour. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 3: No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Equal liability of all to labour. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The employees and workmen of French nationality shall have the right to belong to French labour unions. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | It is downright labour to him where ladies are concerned. |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | Practically, they are giving their skilled labour for the benefit of the Hospital. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Meanwhile, they shall be at the command of any gentleman, inclined, and competent, to take the unprofitable labour off my hands. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | A blessed labour, my most sovereign lord. |
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Business | The new Labour Government has announced that it is committed to a sustainable and efficient energy future. (references) | |
In November, 1999 a new government was elected led by Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, Helen Clark. (references) | ||
However, with its convenient location on major world transport routes and access to a pool of skilled labor at competitive rates, Singapore has created for itself a particular niche in the airframe maintenance repair business which accounts for 33.3% of the total repair & overhaul (R&O) output in 1998. Singapore's other capabilities in the R&O segment include R&O of aircraft engines and engine components (32.4%), R&O of avionics (17.2%) and repair of aircraft structures (3.4%). But with Singapore's rapidly rising labour costs in recent years, neighboring countries pose a formidable challenge in the R&O business. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Saint Kitts and Nevis | The opposition People's Action Movement (PAM) party has alleged that the Labour Party has maintained absolute control of the national television and radio broadcasting facilities, blocking PAM's access and ability to debate government policies or air opposing concerns. (references) |
Economic History | Ireland | In the June general election, Labour lost heavily and was reduced to 18 seats in the Dail. (references) |
Ireland | Fine Gael also picked up seats but was unable to form a coalition with the much-reduced Labour party. (references) | |
Human Rights | Jamaica | On September 7, unidentified gunmen invaded the Mountainview area of Kingston, a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) affiliated community, and killed four persons, two of whom were JLP party activists. (references) |
Political Economy | Ireland | In 1999, Labour merged with the Democratic Left (DL) party, a 1992 offshoot of the small Worker's Party. (references) |
Ireland | Most recently, Labour supporters were disappointed at the party's poor performance in a 2001 by-election. (references) | |
Political Rights | Barbados | In the 1999 elections, the BLP won a decisive victory, gaining a 26-to-2 majority over the Democratic Labour Party. (references) |
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | During the 1998 election, the ruling New Democratic Party won a slim 1-seat majority (8 of 15) in Parliament, despite losing the popular vote by a 55 to 45 percent margin to the opposition Unity Labour Party. (references) | |
Saint Kitts and Nevis | Although the Constitution prohibits discrimination on grounds of political opinion or affiliation, the former opposition party PAM alleges widespread employment discrimination by the St. Kitts and Nevis Labour Party against public sector employment of persons perceived to be PAM supporters. (references) | |
Travel | Australia | For example, all states have a public holiday for the Queen's Birthday and Labour Day, but the dates vary. (references) |
Worker Rights | Barbados | Some officers of the largest union, the Barbados Workers' Union, are associated personally with the Democratic Labour Party. (references) |
Hong Kong | Depending on the size of the claim, the remaining cases were referred to the Labour Tribunal or the Minor Employment Claims Adjudication Board. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | This is so true, that of the proprietors of slaves a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labour. |
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| "Labour" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 42.21% of the time. "Labour" is used about 26,802 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 42.21% | 11,312 | 822 |
| Noun (singular) | 35.78% | 9,591 | 992 |
| Noun (common) | 20.73% | 5,557 | 1,772 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.63% | 169 | 23,972 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.54% | 144 | 26,339 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.11% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26,802 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "labour": be in labour ♦ cheap labour ♦ desegregation of the labour market ♦ dilute labour ♦ dilution of labour ♦ division of labour ♦ embodied labour ♦ forced labour ♦ foreign labour ♦ fruit of his labour ♦ hard labour ♦ have one's labour for one's pains ♦ hours of labour ♦ indirect labour ♦ indirect labour cost ♦ induce labour ♦ International Labour Organization ♦ Labour Act ♦ labour along ♦ labour camp ♦ labour contract ♦ labour costs ♦ labour court ♦ labour day ♦ labour department ♦ labour dispute ♦ labour disputes:time lost ♦ labour exchange ♦ labour for ♦ labour force ♦ labour income ♦ labour intensive ♦ labour law ♦ labour management decisions ♦ labour market ♦ labour movement ♦ labour of love ♦ labour pain ♦ labour pains ♦ labour party ♦ labour party member ♦ labour productivity ♦ labour psychology ♦ labour relations ♦ labour reletions ♦ labour resources ♦ labour saving ♦ labour shortage ♦ labour supply ♦ labour through ♦ labour time record ♦ labour troubles ♦ labour turnover ♦ labour under ♦ labour under a delusion ♦ labour under an illusion ♦ labour union ♦ labour up a hill ♦ labour welfare act ♦ labour with child ♦ live labour ♦ local labour ♦ lost labour ♦ manual labour ♦ materialised labour ♦ materialized labour ♦ ministry of labour ♦ native labour ♦ past labour ♦ penal labour ♦ physical labour ♦ premature labour ♦ protective labour legislation ♦ R&D expenditure in the...sector as a percentage of 10,000 labour force ♦ saving of labour ♦ scab labour ♦ scarceness of labour ♦ shortage of labour ♦ skilled labour ♦ slave labour ♦ slave labour camp ♦ statute labour ♦ the unskilled labour ♦ unskilled labour ♦ wage labour ♦ white labour ♦ woman in labour. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "labour": Labour-ashdown, labour-augmenting, labour-by, labour-camp, labour-capital, labour-cnd, labour-communist, labour-component, labour-conservative, labour-contract, labour-controlled, labour-costs, labour-creating, labour-displacing, labour-dividing, labour-dominated, labour-effective, labour-encouraged, labour-especially, labour-force, labour-forces, labour-held, labour-hoarding, labour-hour, labour-inclined, labour-intensive, labour-intensiveness, labour-ite, Labour-law, labour-led, labour-left, Labour-lib, labour-liberal, Labour-likud, labour-management, labour-market, labour-market-clearing, labour-migration, labour-minded, labour-only, labour-power, labour-protection, labour-recruiting, labour-relations, labour-run, labour-saving, labour-scarcity, labour-services, labour-shedding, labour-snp, labour-style, labour-supply, labour-supporting, labour-teams, labour-time, labour-tory-labour-tory, labour-union, Labour-unionist, labour-voting, labour-winnable, labour-won. | |
Ending with "labour": anti-labour, capital-labour, democracy-labour, ex-labour, free-labour, liberal-labour, likud-labour, non-labour, pro-labour, wage-labour. | |
Containing "labour": left-labour-controlled, time-and-labour-saving. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
labour ministry | 317 |
labour ministry ontario | 285 |
labour | 159 |
labour law ontario | 109 |
labour law | 86 |
canada code labour | 78 |
board labour | 69 |
department labour | 58 |
labour party | 58 |
labour relations | 39 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "labour"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | arbeidsmark (labor, labor market, labour market). (various references) | |
Albanian | lodhem (fag, flag, get tired, grow weary, labor, strain oneself, tire), lindje (accouchement, birth, dawn, delivery, East, generation, genesis, giving birth, labor, nascence, nascency, nativity, Orient, origination, procreation, progeniture, rise), laburist (labor, laborist, laborite, labourist, labourite), shtjelloj (develop, discuss, evolve, explain, explicate, labor, treat), punoj (do, drive, employ, engage, go, labor, operate, recruit, serve, work), punë (affair, affairs, appointment, avocation, berth, business, concern, concernment, deed, doing, duty, employ, engagement, function, job, labor, make, making, metier, movement, occupation, office, operation, practice, question, service, shebang, slot, task, task-work, thing, work), ngul këmbë (insist, labor, stickle), mundohem (agonize, endeavor, endeavour, fag, labor, plod, sweat, toil, try), klasë punëtore (labor), i punës (industrial, labor, laboring, labouring), fuqi punëtore (labor, labor power, manpower), dhimbjet e lindjes (labor, labor pains, labour pains), detyrë (assignation, assignment, burden, business, chore, devoir, duty, exercise, job, labor, mission, obligation, office, ought, place, project, seal, task, task-work, tie, trust). (various references) | |
Arabic | كادح (drudging, industrious, labor, laborer, laborious, labourer, plodder, slogger), كدح (drudge, drudgery, elbow grease, fag, grub, hard work, labor, moil, plod, proletarianize, slave, slavery, slog, sweat, sweat blood, swot, toil, travail, work hard), مهمة مضنية (labor), غرفة الولادة (labor), عمل (act, action, aggravation, berth, business, deed, elaborate, employment, engagement, fag, feat, function, gird on, job, labor, making, occupation, place, pursuit, racket, see, situation, task, work), جهد (dint, effort, exert, exertion, labor, overload, overstrain, overwork, pain, pressure, spirt, spurt, strain, stress, tension, worry), إشتغل (dabble, job, labor, put in, work), ألم الولاده (labor), أرهق (beat, break, exhaust, fatigue, gruel, harass, labor, lie, load, overload, overstrain, pump, run down, saddle, soak, squeeze, tax, try, tucker, weary, weigh, weigh down, weight), ثمرة جهد (labor). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | труд (labor, pains, trouble, work), движа се бавно (jog, labor, trickle), изпитвам родилни мъки (labor), лейбъристите (labor), люшкам се (labor, sway, welter), английската лейбъристка партия (labor), жертва съм (labor), затруднен съм (labor), мъча се (agonize, labor, seek, suffer, toil, try, tug, writhe), движа с усилие (labor), тежка работа (donkey work, elbow grease, fag, grind, job, labor, moil, murder, plod, slavery, task-work, toil, warm work), старая се (endeavor, endeavour, exert oneself, labor, study, try), трудов (labor, occupational, work, working), трудя се (fag, labor, plod, toil), работа (affair, avocation, berth, billet, business, char, concern, dealings, do, employ, employment, engagement, function, job, labor, 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 (labor, operative, working), работна ръка (labor, manpower), раждам (be confined, bear, beget, breed, bring forth, drop, fawn, give, give birth, have, labor, lie in wait, mother, procreate, produce, spawn, throw, whelp), разработвам подробно (labor, write up), родилни мъки (labor, labor pains, labour pains, pains, parturition, throes, travail), усилия (labor, labours, pains, striving), обработвам (arrange, belabor, belabour, cultivate, cure, curry, farm, husband, labor, plough, process, retrieve, till, tool, work, work up). (various references) | |
Chinese | 劳方 (LABOR). (various references) | |
Czech | pracovat k porodu (labor), pracovat (act, engage in, function, go out to work, labor, operate, perform, work, work at), práce (employment, job, labor, pidgin, pursuit, service, task, undertaking, work, working), porodní bolesti (labor, labor pains, labour pains, parturition, throes), namáhat se (exert oneself, labor, strain oneself, strive, trouble), námaha (effort, exertion, labor, pains, strain, sweat), dřina (drudgery, elbow grease, fag, grind, grindery, labor, moil, slog, stinker, sweat, toil), dřít (hurt, labor, plod, rub), dìlnictvo (labor, workpeople), úkol (assignment, job, labor, mission, objective, part, stint, target, task, undertaking). (various references) | |
Danish | veer, véer, arbejdskraften, arbejdskraft (labor force, labour force, workers), arbejde i søen, arbejde (activity, chore, effort, job, labor, live labor, live labour, position, work). (various references) | |
Dutch | ter wereld brengen (be in labour, give birth), bevallen (be in labour, bear, give birth, give birth to, please). (various references) | |
Esperanto | akuŝi (be in labour, give birth). (various references) | |
Faeroese | føða (be in labour, bear, feed, give birth, give birth to, nourish), eiga (be in labour, give birth, own, possess). (various references) | |
Finnish | työvoima (economically active population, workers), työ (act, deed, effort, employment, job, labor, live labor, live labour, occupation, task, work). (various references) | |
French | travail (labor), accoucher (be in labour). (various references) | |
Frisian | fakferiening (corporation, labour-union, syndicate, trade-union), fakbûn (labour-union, syndicate, trade-union), 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, labor, live labor, live labour, paper, piece of work, pile, project, script, stint, task, test, work, working), wehen (birth pangs, blow, contraction, drift, fly, labor, labor pains, labour pains, pains, to breeze, waft, wave), arbeiten (be at work, be busy, fashion, ferment, function, have a job, jobs, labor, labours, make, operate, panting, sculpture, study, to act, to work, toil, work, working, workings, works). (various references) | |
Greek | εργασία (business, employment, job, labor, operation, task, work, workmanship), κοπιάζω (labor, moil, take pains to), εργάζομαι (fabricate, labor, operate, process, tool, work). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מלאכ" (business, craft, craftsmanship, employment, metier, occupation, skill, task, work), י'יע" (effort, exertion, strain, toil), לעמול (labor, make effort, moil, slog, take pains, toil, travail, work), לעשות (accomplish, act, create, do, execute, fulfill, make, manage, produce, work), לעבו" (labor, serve, till, toil, work), עמל (exertion, labor, moil, toil), עבו"" (creation, labor, service, toil, work). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vajúdás (child birth, childbirth, labor, labor pains, labour pains, lying in, pain, pains, parturition, throes, travail), munka (chore, civil engineering, engineering, job, jog-trot, labor, non-exacting work, press of business, task, to be on the road, work, workmanship). (various references) | |
Icelandic | fæða (be in labour, give birth), ala (be in labour, give birth). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tenaga kerja, kerja (job, occupation, work). (various references) | |
Italian | lavoro (achievement, business, chore, effort, employment, job, labor, occupation, output, shop, stint, task, work, working, yield, yoke). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 労力 (effort, toil, trouble), 手" (time). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ろうりょく (effort, toil, trouble), てま (time). (various references) | |
Korean | 노동 (LABOR). (various references) | |
Manx | troailt (commute; voyaging, itinerate, journey, negotiate, travel, travelling, traverse, trek, trekking, voyage), tooilleil (donkey-work, drudge, drudgery, fatigue, laboriousness, tire, tiresomeness, toil, travail, weary; wearying; elbow grease), obbraghey (act, action, behaviour, behaviour of machines, crew, cultivate, elaboration, employment, exercise, forge, function, handle, handling, influence, motion, operate, operation, performance, ply, process, start, wangle; persuance, work, work up, wreak), lught obbyr (personnel), labraghey (labouring, work, working), laboraght (toil, work), laboragh (worker), doccarys (arduousness, drudgery, hardship, irksomeness, laboriousness), doccar (arduousness, difficult, struggle). (various references) | |
Norwegian | stri med, slite (fag), slit (fag), arbeidskraft, arbeide. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abourlay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | trabalho (ado, craftsmanship, effort, employment, fabricate, function, hard up, job, job-, labor, machine finishing, machining, mark, needs, operation, pain, painstaking, process, processing, service, space, task, tool, work, working, workmanship, works), mão-de-obra (labor, manpower drain, workmanship). (various references) | |
Romanian | lucru (act, activity, article, belongings, business, cert, deed, employment, happening, implement, job, labor, matter, object, occurrence, operation, predecessor, service, situation, thing, things, traps, work, working), lucra (bungle, cultivate, do, farm, function, labor, operate, run, till, toil, work), trudã (drudgery, elbow grease, grub, labor, moil, suffering, sufferings, sweat, tiredness, toil, trouble, work), clasã muncitoare (labor, the workers, the working class), durerile facerii (accouchement, labor, pain), effort (drive, effort, endeavor, endeavour, exertion, force, labor, pain, pluck, push, strain, stretch, struggle, tug), elabora amãnunţit (labor), expune amãnunţit (develop, labor), fi în chinurile naşterii (labor), muncã (grub, job, labor, operation, service, task, work, working), caznã (agony, efforts, labor, moil, question, rack, torment, torture), strãdanie (effort, endeavor, endeavour, labor, painstaking, push, striving, struggle), trudi (drudge, fag, grind, labor, moil, sweat, toil, torture, weary), munci (do, endeavor, endeavour, labor, rack, suffer, till, toil, torment, torture, work), munci la (labor), muncitorii (labor, the workers, worker), produs al muncii (labor), redacta amãnunţit (labor), silinţã (application, diligence, effort, endeavor, endeavour, labor, sedulousness, zeal), fi în durerile facerii (labor, labor with child, labour with child, lie in). (various references) | |
Russian | рабочий класс (labor, working class), рабочие (labor), работа (dead horse, duty, job, labor, making, operation, proceedings, service, work, working), трудовой (labor), трудиться (fag, labor, toil, work), труд (labor), кропотливо разрабатывать (labor), мучиться родами (labor), лейбористский (labor), потрудиться (labor, toil). (various references) | |
Scottish | saothair (chore, job, pains, toil, work), obair (a work, chore, job, work). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | previše dobro nešto obraditi (labor), delo (act, action, deed, fact, labor, opus, piece), obraditi (farm, labor, process), patiti (dree, labor, suffer), petljati se (intermeddle, labor), porođaj (birth, child birth, delivery, giving birth, labor, parturition), porođajne muke (labor), biti u radnom odnosu (labor), potruditi (labor), truditi (labor, try), proleterijat (labor, proletariat), rad (business, labor, open, running, willing, work, working), raditi (do, labor, operate, perform, practise, work), radni (labor, occupational, operating, working), radnička klasa (labor), radnički (labor, laborer, labourer, worker, workman), porođajni (labor). (various references) | |
Spanish | trabajo (assignment, chore, craft, diploma, discourse, dissertation, effort, elaboration, employ, enterprise, job, labor, lieu, mark, occupation, ploy, task, toil, work, working), mano de obra (labor, labour force, manpower). (various references) | |
Swedish | arbete (activity, chore, effort, employment, job, jobbing, labor, live labor, live labour, operation, undertaking, work, working, workmanship, writing), arbetskraft (labor, manpower, workers). (various references) | |
Thai | ใช้เวลาและความพยายามมาก (labor), พยายามต่อสู้เพื่อจุ"มุ่งหมาย (labor), ชนชั้นแรงงาน (labor), ทำงานหนัก (drudge, grub, labor), กระทำ"้วยความยากลำบาก (labor), งานที่ใช้พละกำลัง (labor), าระ (beeswax, burden, labor, load). (various references) | |
Turkish | lafı uzatmak (belabor, belabour, go into details, labor), 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, labor, 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, labor force, labour force, manpower), işçi sınıfı (labor, proletariat, proletariate, workers, working class), işçi partisi (labour party), hizmet (duty, employment, function, labor, labor intensive, labour intensive, ministration, ministry, service), emek vermek (labor, lucubrate), emek (exertion, labor, pain, pains, toil, work), doğum sancısı çekmek (be in labor, be in labour, labor, travail), doğum sancısı (labor, travail), çalışmak (aim, aim at, behave, catch, endeavor, endeavour, fire, function, labor, operate, practice, practise, serve, start, start up, struggle, study, try, work), çalışma (action, exercise, gear, job of work, labor, practice, praxis, priming, running, starting, study, training, work, working, workout), çaba harcamak (endeavor, endeavour, labor, push, rustle). (various references) | |
Ukranian | робітничий клас (labor, working class), робота (action, business, job, labor, occupation, operation, performance, proceedings, work, working), трудитися (drudge, labor, work), лейбористський (labor), працювати (act, go, labor, open, operate, work), праця (employment, job, labor, occupation, proceedings, service, work), докладати зусиль (be at pains, labor). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lao động công việc (labor), nhân công đau đẻ những cố gắng vô ích (labor), những nỗ lực uổng công (labor), công việc nặng nhọc tầng lớp lao động (labor). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Romans Chapter 16, Verse 6 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Aspasasqe mariam htiV polla ekopiasen eiV hmaV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Salutate Mariam quae multum laboravit in vobis |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Halette Mariae þe wyrhte micel harde for eow. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Grete wel Marie, the whiche hath trauelid myche in vs. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Grete Mary which bestowed moche labour on vs. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Greet Mary, who bestowed much labour on us. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Greet Mary, who bestowed much labor on us. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Give my love to Mary, who gave much care to you. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Romans Chapter 16, Verse 6 |
| Bulgarian | Поздравете Трифена и Трифоса, които работят в "оспода. Поздравете любезната Пероида, която е работила много в "оспода. |
| Cebuano | Ipangomusta ako kang Maria nga nagapangabudlay pag-ayo diha kaninyo. |
| Chinese | 又 問 馬 利 亞 安 . 他 為 們 多 受 勞 若 。 |
| Croatian | Pozdravite Mariju koja se mnogo trudila za vas. |
| Danish | Hilser Maria, som har arbejdet meget for eder. |
| Dutch | Groet Maria, die veel voor ons gearbeid heeft. |
| Finnish | Tervehdys Marialle, joka on nähnyt paljon vaivaa teidän tähtenne. |
| French | Saluez Marie, qui a pris beaucoup de peine pour vous. |
| German | Grüßet Maria, welche viel Mühe und Arbeit mit uns gehabt hat. |
| Haitian Creole | Di Mari ki te bay kò l' anpil traka pou nou an bonjou. |
| Hungarian | Köszöntsétek Máriát, ki sokat munkálkodott körülöttünk. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Salam saya juga kepada Maria. Ia sudah bekerja begitu keras untuk kalian. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Salam kepada Maryam yang sudah berlelah sangat-sangat karena kamu. |
| Italian | Salutate Maria, che ha faticato molto per voi. |
| Korean | 너 희 를 위 하 여 많 이 수 한 마 리 아 에 게 문 안 하 라 |
| Latvian | Sveiciniet Mariju, kas daudz strâdâjusi jûsu labâ! |
| Maori | Oha atu ki a Meri, he nui tana mahi ki a matou. |
| Modern Greek | Ασπασθητε την Μαριαμ, ητις πολλα εκοπιασε δι' ημας. |
| Norwegian | Hils Maria, som har arbeidet meget for eder. |
| Portuguese | Saudai a Maria, que muito trabalhou por vós. |
| Rumanian | Spuneyi sqnqtate Mariei, care s`a ostenit mult pentru voi. - |
| Russian | рТЙЧЕФУФЧХКФЕ нБТЙБН, ЛПФПТБС НОПЗП ФТХ"ЙМБУШ "МС ОБУ. |
| Shuar | Marisha, atumjai ti takasua nu amikmaatruatarum. |
| Spanish | Saludad a María, quien ha trabajado arduamente entre vosotros. |
| Swahili | Nisalimieni Maria ambaye amefanya kazi kwa bidii kwa ajili yenu. |
| Swedish | Hälsen Maria, som har arbetat så mycket för eder. |
| Thai | ขอฝากความคิ"ถึงมายังมารีย์ผู้ไ"้ตรากตรำทำงานหนักเพื่อเราทั้งหลาย |
| Ukrainian | 'ітайте Марію, що напрацювалася багато для вас. |
| Uma | Pai' hi Maria wo'o tabe-ku. Mobago ngkoro-imi mpobago-kokoi. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "labour": laboured, labourer, labourers, labouring, labours. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "labour": belabour. (additional references) | |
Words containing "labour": belaboured, belabouring, belabours. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "labour" (pronounced lā"bou'r or lā"ber) |
| 4 | l ā" b er | belabor, labor. |
| 3 | -ā" b er | Neighbor, saber, sabre, taber, Tabor. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-l-o-r-u" | |
-1 letter: bolar, boral, labor, lobar. | |
-2 letters: blur, boar, bola, bora, bura, burl, lour, oral. | |
-3 letters: abo, alb, arb, bal, bar, boa, bra, bro, bur, lab, lar, lob, oar, ora, orb, our, rob, rub, urb. | |
-4 letters: ab, al, ar, ba, bo, la, lo, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-l-o-r-u" | |
+1 letter: labours, lobular, rubeola, suboral. | |
+2 letters: belabour, biovular, glabrous, globular, laboured, labourer, outbrawl, pourable, rubeolar, rubeolas, sourball, subpolar, subsolar. | |
+3 letters: absoluter, baroquely, beglamour, belabours, binocular, boulevard, burladero, corbicula, groupable, harborful, laborious, labourers, labouring, orbicular, outbrawls, sourballs, subnormal, tabulator, vocabular. | |
+4 letters: ambulatory, beglamours, belaboured, binoculars, boulevards, burladeros, columbaria, corbiculae, floribunda, harborfuls, honourable, lubricator, nondurable, obdurately, orbiculate, outbrawled, overbrutal, procurable, recoupable, roundtable, salubrious, scabrously, suborbital, tabulators, unprovable, unworkable, urbanology, vocabulary. | |
+5 letters: ablutionary, ailurophobe, atrabilious, barbarously, barrelhouse, beglamoured, belabouring, bimolecular, binocularly, boatbuilder, bromouracil, burglarious, columbarium, construable, floribundas, laboriously, lubrication, lubricators, lucubration, lumbosacral, multicarbon, nonburnable, nondurables, nonreusable, orbicularly, outbrawling, rambouillet, redoubtable, redoubtably, roundtables, subcortical, sublittoral, subnormally, subrational, subregional, subtropical, supportable, tribulation, uncrossable, unelaborate, unfavorable, unfavorably, unignorable, unmemorable, unmemorably, unremovable, unworkables. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 62 6F 75 72 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- -... --- ..- .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01100010 01101111 01110101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a b o u r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0062 006F 0075 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)466768818784 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Historic | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Speeches 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Bible Trace | 17. Abbreviations 18. Acronyms 19. Derivations 20. Rhymes | 21. Anagrams 22. Orthography 23. Bibliography |
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