labor

n

1. work, employment, job, occupation, living, livelihood, means of support.

2. toil, travail, sweat of one's brow, moil, drudgery, grind, menial work; hard work or toil, hard labor, slavery; exertion, effort, strain, struggle, laboriousness, plodding, Inf. plugging, pegging; industry, industriousness, operoseness, diligence.

3. workers, laborers, workmen, hands, working men and women, employees; working class, proletariat. See laborer.

4. job, commission, task, chore, odd job, errand; duty, charge, assignment, mission; function, role, activity, business, affair; undertaking, enterprise, business venture.

5. travail, labor pains or pangs, contractions, throes; parturition, delivery, childbirth, birth.

v

6. work or work hard, toil, moil, drudge, grub, grind; work one's fingers to the bone, slave or slave away, work like a slave, work like a Trojan, Sl. kill oneself; work day and night, burn the midnight oil, burn the candle at both ends, overdo, overwork, overexert oneself; sweat, struggle, Sl. beat one's brains out; peg away at, Inf. plug away at, keep trying, plod along; force oneself, push oneself, make oneself, strain oneself, exert oneself, make an effort, work at, apply oneself to; ply one's trade, work away at, be busy with, be employed at, occupy oneself with.

7. labor for

strive for or towards, work for or towards; endeavor to, attempt to, try to, make an or every effort, do all that is humanly possible, do one's best, do one's utmost, do all one can.

8. be in labor, be in travail, undergo pain, suffer; give birth to, bear, deliver.

9. roll, pitch, heave, toss, turn.

10. belabor, dwell on, Inf. beat into the ground, overdo; elaborate, develop, expound on, expand on.

11. burden, load or load down, overload, overburden; tire, fatigue, fag, weary, exhaust, Sl. do in, wear out, U.S. Inf. tucker out, take all one's strength, Sl. zap.