Laboring
['leɪbərɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Labor
(a.) That labors; performing labor; esp., performing coarse, heavy work, not requiring skill also, set apart for labor; as, laboring days.
(a.) Suffering pain or grief.
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Examples
- Why, he is a common laboring boy! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He has been laboring all his life and looking forward. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The nobles, who despised commerce, and the burghers, who lived by it, were always fighting for the upper hand, and the laboring people sided now with one party, and now with the other. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In some individuals, appetites naturally dominate; they are assigned to the laboring and trading class, which expresses and supplies human wants. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This state of affairs must exist so far as society is organized on a basis of division between laboring classes and leisure classes. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I misdealt, as was only natural, when I knew she was lying in wait for me to do wrong; and she denounced me for a stupid, clumsy laboring-boy. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The want of money discouraged laboring and handicraftsmen. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It seemed to him that no pleasure on earth could compare with laboring for the welfare and protection of the beautiful white girl. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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