Noun

• S: (n) labor, labour, toil (productive work (especially physical work done for wages)) "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• S: (n) roping (capturing cattle or horses with a lasso)
• S: (n) corvee (unpaid labor (as for the maintenance of roads) required by a lord of his vassals in lieu of taxes)
• S: (n) drudgery, plodding, grind, donkeywork (hard monotonous routine work)
• S: (n) effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat (use of physical or mental energy; hard work) "he got an A for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion"
• S: (n) hunt, hunting (the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts)
• S: (n) hackwork (professional work done according to formula)
• S: (n) haymaking (cutting grass and curing it to make hay)
• S: (n) manual labor, manual labour (labor done with the hands)
• S: (n) overwork, overworking (the act of working too much or too long) "he became ill from overwork"
• S: (n) slavery (work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form

Verb

• S: (v) labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil (work hard) "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"