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Labour

Definitions: Labour

Labour

Noun

1. 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".

Verb

1. 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.



Specialty Definitions: Labour

DomainDefinitions

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)

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

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Specialty Definition: Labour

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Labour (U.S. spelling, "labor") can mean one of:

  1. In economics one of the three main factors of production. The term refers to work done by human employees. See Labour (economics), Labor market
  2. Manual work or the people who do manual work, see manual labour.
  3. the process of childbirth
  4. Labour Party: see Australian Labor Party, British Labour Party, Irish Labour Party, New Zealand Labour Party, Partij van de Arbeid
  5. Labour movement, labour union

See also: Wiktionary:Labour

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Labour."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Labour

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.

EntrySourceExpressionField
LASEnglishLabour Accounting SystemStatistics, Labor

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

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Synonyms: Labour

Synonyms: 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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Crosswords: Labour

English words defined with "labour": 1st Earl AttleeAttleeClement Attlee, Clement Richard AttleeInternational Labour Organizationlabour of love, labour pains, Labour Party, Labouritemanual labour, Militant Tendencypremature laboursignaltamely. (references)
Specialty definitions using "labour": activity rate, ash wagonbill of quantities, births attended by health staff, Brazen HeadCAMPBELL'S ACADEMY, capital-intensive, children 10-14 labor force, children 10-14 labour force, contract with firm,non revisable price, corporatism, cost categories, Coxeyitesdeclining area, declining region, desegregation of the labour market, down timeearned income, economically active population, ELBOW GREASE, embodied labourfalse pains, Farmers, firm price contract, First-class Hard Labour, Free Software Foundation, frictional unemploymentgainful employment, Glasgow Arms, gnomes of Zurich, Green LabourHair of the Dog that Bit You, Hair, Hairs, Hercules' Labour, Hieroclean Legacy, highly capitalised, hours of labourindirect labour, industrial court, industrial tribunal, ISCED 3A, ISCED 3B, ISCED 3C, ISCED 4B, ISCED level 3A, ISCED level 3B, ISCED level 3C, ISCED level 4Bjob bank, job creation, job placement, Jordan PassedKnights of Labourlabor income, LaborNet, Labour Act, labour court, labour force, labour income, labour intensive, labour psychology, labour relations, labour turnover, labour turn-over, lagging region, laying off, lijnentekening, live labour, local labourmaterialised labour, materialized labour, monetary clauseNapiers Bones, non-family labour not regularly employed, non-family labour regularly employedobstetric, obstetrical, other taxespast labour, per capita tax, premonitory painsR&D expenditure in the...sector as a percentage of 10,000 labour force, Rayleigh distributionskilled labour, Speaking Heads, St. Simonism, supported employment, survey of income and program participationthink-tank, trading in human beings, trafficking in human beings, trafficking in women and childrenunfilled vacancies, union labelvormtekeningWatchings, White Czar, work put in place, working population. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Labour" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (digging, ploughing, tillage), Swedish (labor, labour).

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Modern Usage: Labour

DomainUsage

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)

Lieutenant Daring and the Labour Riots (1913)

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

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Commercial Usage: Labour

DomainTitle

Books

  • Doing the Dirty Work?: The Global Politics of Domestic Labour (reference)

  • Education, Training and Employment Dynamics: Transitional Labour Markets in the European Union (Labour Markets and Employment Policy) (reference)

  • European Labour Politics from 1900 to the Depression (Studies in European History) (reference)

  • Labour, Science and Technology in France, 1500-1620 (reference)

  • Land and Labour in China (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: Labour

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Familiar Quotations: Labour

AuthorQuotation

Sir Thomas More

The things, good Lord, that I pray for, give me thy grace to labour for. Amen.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Labour

AuthorDateQuotation

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Labour

TitleAuthorQuote

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Labour

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Speeches: Labour

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Thomas Jefferson

1801-1809This is so true, that of the proprietors of slaves a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labour.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Labour

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)42.21%11,312822
Noun (singular)35.78%9,591992
Noun (common)20.73%5,5571,772
Lexical Verb (infinitive)0.63%16923,972
Noun (proper)0.54%14426,339
Lexical Verb (base form)0.11%2964,444
                    Total100.00%26,802N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Labour

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Labour

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translations: Labour

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.

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Bible Trace: Labour

LanguageDateSourceRomans Chapter 16, Verse 6
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintAspasasqe mariam htiV polla ekopiasen eiV hmaV
Latin405VulgateSalutate Mariam quae multum laboravit in vobis
Old English990West SaxonHalette Mariae þe wyrhte micel harde for eow.
Middle English1395WyclifGrete wel Marie, the whiche hath trauelid myche in vs.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleGrete Mary which bestowed moche labour on vs.
Jacobean English1611King JamesGreet Mary, who bestowed much labour on us.
Victorian English1833WebsterGreet Mary, who bestowed much labor on us.
Basic English1964OgdenGive my love to Mary, who gave much care to you.

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

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Matched Bible Translations: Labour

LanguageRomans Chapter 16, Verse 6
BulgarianПоздравете Трифена и Трифоса, които работят в "оспода. Поздравете любезната Пероида, която е работила много в "оспода.
CebuanoIpangomusta ako kang Maria nga nagapangabudlay pag-ayo diha kaninyo.
Chinese又 問 馬 利 亞 安 . 他 為 們 多 受 勞 若 。
CroatianPozdravite Mariju koja se mnogo trudila za vas.
DanishHilser Maria, som har arbejdet meget for eder.
DutchGroet Maria, die veel voor ons gearbeid heeft.
FinnishTervehdys Marialle, joka on nähnyt paljon vaivaa teidän tähtenne.
FrenchSaluez Marie, qui a pris beaucoup de peine pour vous.
GermanGrüßet Maria, welche viel Mühe und Arbeit mit uns gehabt hat.
Haitian CreoleDi Mari ki te bay kò l' anpil traka pou nou an bonjou.
HungarianKöszöntsétek Máriát, ki sokat munkálkodott körülöttünk.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariSalam saya juga kepada Maria. Ia sudah bekerja begitu keras untuk kalian.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaSalam kepada Maryam yang sudah berlelah sangat-sangat karena kamu.
ItalianSalutate Maria, che ha faticato molto per voi.
Korean너 희 를 위 하 여 많 이 수 한 마 리 아 에 게 문 안 하 라
LatvianSveiciniet Mariju, kas daudz strâdâjusi jûsu labâ!
MaoriOha atu ki a Meri, he nui tana mahi ki a matou.
Modern GreekΑσπασθητε την Μαριαμ, ητις πολλα εκοπιασε δι' ημας.
NorwegianHils Maria, som har arbeidet meget for eder.
PortugueseSaudai a Maria, que muito trabalhou por vós.   
RumanianSpuneyi sqnqtate Mariei, care s`a ostenit mult pentru voi. -
RussianрТЙЧЕФУФЧХКФЕ нБТЙБН, ЛПФПТБС НОПЗП ФТХ"ЙМБУШ "МС ОБУ.
ShuarMarisha, atumjai ti takasua nu amikmaatruatarum.
SpanishSaludad a María, quien ha trabajado arduamente entre vosotros.
SwahiliNisalimieni Maria ambaye amefanya kazi kwa bidii kwa ajili yenu.
SwedishHälsen Maria, som har arbetat så mycket för eder.
Thaiขอฝากความคิ"ถึงมายังมารีย์ผู้ไ"้ตรากตรำทำงานหนักเพื่อเราทั้งหลาย
Ukrainian'ітайте Марію, що напрацювалася багато для вас.
UmaPai' hi Maria wo'o tabe-ku. Mobago ngkoro-imi mpobago-kokoi.

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

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Derivations: Labour

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).

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Rhyming with "Labour"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "labour" (pronounced lā"bou'r or lā"ber)
4l ā" b erbelabor, labor.
3-ā" b erNeighbor, saber, sabre, taber, Tabor.

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

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Anagrams: Labour

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.

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Alternative Orthography: Labour


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 61 62 6F 75 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-..    .-    -...    ---    ..-    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01100001 01100010 01101111 01110101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#97 &#98 &#111 &#117 &#114

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

466768818784

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INDEX

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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