Work, especially manual/physical work, for wages.

chiefly British English spelling of labor (q.v.); for spelling, see -or. With capital L-, short for "the British Labour Party," it is attested from 1892; the party name itself is from 1886.

labor

labor: a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field" labor: work hard; "She was dig [..]

hard work

lit. work or the workforce. An input to any production system. It is important to geographers as many aspects of labour have spatial variations:

The human work carried out to produce a good or service, and the people that perform that work. Labour is one of the four factors of...

The economically productive capabilities of humans, their physical and mental talents as applied to the production of goods and services.

The stages of childbirth. Labour is divided into three stages; first, second and third.

Labour is the process of passage of a baby (foetus) and placenta from the uterus (womb), through the vagina, to be external to the mother. True labour involves regular, rhythmical contractions of the [..]

A ship labours when she pitches and rolls heavily.

As applied to ship, is to roll and pitch heavily and slowly.

, v. ‘To labour a field,’ to dig it or cultivate it.

Fr. n. "labor." KEY: labour@fr_n

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n. "labor, work, effort; pain, trouble," s.v. labour, labor sb. OED. KEY: labour@n

n 67 labour 65 labours 2

(UK)the Labour PartyAustralian political party

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delivery; child birth; The various stages of labour are defined as follows: