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labour n. [
labor, working class, proletariat] a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
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labour v. [
labor, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil] work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
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labour n. [
parturiency, labor, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed] concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
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labour v. [
tug, labor, push, drive] 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"
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labour n. [
British Labour Party, Labour Party, Labour, Labor] a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries
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