Labour

[leibә]

Definition

n. toil or exertion esp. when fatiguing: work: pains: duties: a task requiring hard work: the pangs of childbirth.—v.i. to undergo labour: to work: to take pains: to be oppressed: to move slowly: to be in travail: (naut.) to pitch and roll heavily.—adj. Labō′rious full of labour: toilsome: wearisome: devoted to labour: industrious.—adv. Labō′riously.—n. Labō′riousness.—adj. Lā′boured bearing marks of labour or effort in the execution.—ns. Lā′bourer one who labours: one who does work requiring little skill; Lā′bourist one who contends for the interests of workmen.—adjs. Lā′bour-sav′ing intended to supersede or lessen the labour of men; Lā′boursome (Shak.) made with labour and diligence.—Labour Day a legal holiday in some parts of the United States as in New York (the first Monday in September); Labour market the supply of unemployed labour in relation to the demand for it; Labour of love work undertaken merely as an act of friendliness and without hope of emolument; Labour with to take pains to convince.—Hard labour compulsory work imposed on certain criminals in addition to imprisonment.

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