Noun

• S: (n) labor (labor%1:14:00::), labour (labour%1:14:00::), working class (working_class%1:14:00::), proletariat (proletariat%1:14:00::) (a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages) "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
• S: (n) parturiency (parturiency%1:26:00::), labor (labor%1:26:00::), labour (labour%1:26:00::), confinement (confinement%1:26:01::), lying-in (lying-in%1:26:00::), travail (travail%1:26:00::), childbed (childbed%1:26:00::) (concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child) "she was in labor for six hours"
• S: (n) British Labour Party (british_labour_party%1:14:00::), Labour Party (labour_party%1:14:01::), Labour (labour%1:14:02::), Labor (labor%1:14:02::) (a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries)
• S: (n) labor (labor%1:04:00::), labour (labour%1:04:00::), toil (toil%1:04:00::) (productive work (especially physical work done for wages)) "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"

Verb

• S: (v) labor (labor%2:41:00::), labour (labour%2:41:00::), toil (toil%2:41:00::), fag (fag%2:41:00::), travail (travail%2:41:00::), grind (grind%2:41:00::), drudge (drudge%2:41:00::), dig (dig%2:41:00::), moil (moil%2:41:00::) (work hard) "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
• S: (v) tug (tug%2:41:00::), labor (labor%2:41:01::), labour (labour%2:41:01::), push (push%2:41:00::), drive (drive%2:41:00::) (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"
• S: (v) labor (labor%2:29:00::), labour (labour%2:29:00::) (undergo the efforts of childbirth)