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Definisjon av labour

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Noun
labour - productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
labor, toil
work activity directed toward making or doing something; "she checked several points needing further work"
roping capturing cattle or horses with a lasso
corvee unpaid labor (as for the maintenance of roads) required by a lord of his vassals in lieu of taxes
donkeywork, drudgery, plodding, grind hard monotonous routine work
elbow grease, exertion, travail, effort, sweat use of physical or mental energy; hard work; "he got an A for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion"
hunting, hunt the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
hackwork professional work done according to formula
haymaking cutting grass and curing it to make hay
manual labor, manual labour labor done with the hands
overwork, overworking the act of working too much or too long; "he became ill from overwork"
labour - concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
parturiency, labor, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
birthing, giving birth, parturition, birth the process of giving birth
pregnancy, gestation, maternity the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus
uterine contraction a rhythmic tightening in labor of the upper uterine musculature that contracts the size of the uterus and pushes the fetus toward the birth canal
effacement withdrawing into the background; making yourself inconspicuous
premature labor, premature labour labor beginning prior to the 37th week of gestation
labour - a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
labor, working class, proletariat
social class, socio-economic class, stratum, class one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock)
labor force, labor pool the source of trained people from which workers can be hired
lumpenproletariat (Marxism) the unorganized lower levels of the proletariat who are not interested in revolutionary advancement
organized labor employees who are represented by a labor union
labour - a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries
British Labour Party, Labour Party, Labour, Labor
labor party, labour party a left-of-center political party formed to represent the interest of ordinary working people

Verb
labour - work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
labor, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
do work, work arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion; "The stitches of the hem worked loose after she wore the skirt many times"
labour - strive and 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"
tug, labor, push, drive
fight, struggle fight against or resist strongly; "The senator said he would oppose the bill"; "Don't fight it!"
plough on, press on, push on continue moving forward
strive, reach, strain to exert much effort or energy; "straining our ears to hear"
labour - undergo the efforts of childbirth
labor
birth, give birth, deliver, bear, have cause to be born; "My wife had twins yesterday!"
undergo pass through; "The chemical undergoes a sudden change"; "The fluid undergoes shear"; "undergo a strange sensation"
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Substantiv
labour - Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
labour - Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.
labour - A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
labour - The act of a mother giving birth.
labour - The time period during which a mother gives birth.

Verb
labour - To toil, to work.
labour - To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon a point in a debate, etc.

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