Antonyms for labor
ˈleɪ bərla·bor

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1. labor

   Industry is the quality, action, or habit of earnest, steady, and continued attention or devotion to any useful or productive work or task, manual or mental. Assiduity (Latin ad, to, and sedeo, sit), as the etymology suggests, sits down to a task until it is done. Diligence (Latin diligo, love, choose) invests more effort and exertion, with love of the work or deep interest in its accomplishment; application (Latin ad, to, and plico, fold) bends to its work and concentrates all one's powers upon it with utmost intensity; hence, application can hardly be as unremitting as assiduity. Constancy is a steady devotion of heart and principle. Patience works on in spite of annoyances; perseverance overcomes hindrances and difficulties; persistence strives relentlessly against opposition; persistence has very frequently an unfavorable meaning, implying that one persists in spite of considerations that should induce him to desist. Industry is diligence applied to some avocation, business, or profession. Labor and pains refer to the exertions of the worker and the tax upon him, while assiduity, perseverance, etc., refer to his continuance in the work.

   Antonyms:
   changeableness, fickleness, idleness, inattention, inconstancy, indolence, neglect, negligence, remissness, sloth

   Synonyms:
   application, assiduity, attention, constancy, diligence, effort, exertion, industry, intentness, pains, patience, perseverance, persistence, sedulousness

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1. labor

   Antonyms:
   indolence, ease, inactivity, facility, skill, recreation, rest, refreshment

   Synonyms:
   work, toil, burn, drudgery, exertion, effort, industry, task, duties

Matched Categories

1. • Class
   • Executive Department
   • Labor Party
   • Reform Movement
   • Undergo
   • Work

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1. labor, labour, working class, proletariatnoun

   a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages

   "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"

   Synonyms:
   labour, labor movement, confinement, parturiency, working class, undertaking, trade union movement, childbed, task, toil, proletariat, travail, lying-in, project

2. labor, labour, toilnoun

   productive work (especially physical work done for wages)

   "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"

   Synonyms:
   labour, labor movement, confinement, parturiency, working class, undertaking, trade union movement, childbed, task, toil, proletariat, travail, lying-in, project

3. parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbednoun

   concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child

   "she was in labor for six hours"

   Synonyms:
   trade union movement, elbow grease, task, proletariat, travail, childbed, labour, effort, project, labor movement, sweat, working class, toil, parturiency, restriction, lying-in, confinement, exertion, undertaking

4. labor movement, trade union movement, labornoun

   an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement

   Synonyms:
   labour, labor movement, confinement, working class, undertaking, parturiency, trade union movement, childbed, task, toil, proletariat, travail, lying-in, project

5. British Labour Party, Labour Party, Labour, Labornoun

   a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries

   Synonyms:
   trade union movement, task, proletariat, travail, childbed, labour, project, labor movement, labour party, working class, toil, parturiency, lying-in, confinement, labor party, undertaking

6. Department of Labor, Labor Department, Labor, DoLnoun

   the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913

   Synonyms:
   labour, labor movement, confinement, parturiency, working class, undertaking, trade union movement, childbed, task, toil, proletariat, travail, lying-in, project

7. undertaking, project, task, laborverb

   any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted

   "he prepared for great undertakings"

   Synonyms:
   trade union movement, task, proletariat, travail, projection, childbed, labour, project, labor movement, working class, toil, parturiency, lying-in, chore, confinement, job, undertaking

8. tug, labor, labour, push, driveverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   fight, force back, crowd, lug, get, dig, ram, drudge, moil, press, tug, agitate, advertize, take, repel, aim, drive, promote, travail, crusade, labour, motor, advertise, grind, bear on, repulse, force, ride, push, campaign, tote, push back, toil, beat back

9. labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moilverb

   work hard

   "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"

   Synonyms:
   compass, comminute, tug, boil, roil, toil, grind, dig, craunch, drudge, moil, dig up, tire, wear out, poke, cut into, crunch, churn, cranch, jab, grasp, weary, prod, jade, tire out, wear upon, fatigue, travail, delve, get the picture, drive, hollow, stab, apprehend, outwear, comprehend, turn over, excavate, mash, wear down, savvy, push, grok, wear, bray, dig out, grate, fag out, labour

10. labor, labourverb

    undergo the efforts of childbirth

    Synonyms:
    labour, dig, travail, drudge, push, grind, drive, toil, tug, moil

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1. labornoun

   Synonyms:
   toil, work, drudgery, task, industry, travail

2. laborverb

   Synonyms:
   toil, work, drudge, slave, moil, travail

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How to use labor in a sentence?

1. Michael Adams:

   I think it’s amazing, when the first person posted that Buffalo Wing Pizza induced their labor, several new moms followed up to say the same thing. THIS' CENTUONO FORMAGGIO PIZZA HAS 101 CHEESES ON IT.

2. Alexander Acosta:

   As I look forward, I do not think it is right and fair for this administration's Labor Department to have Epstein as a focus rather than the incredible economy we have today.

3. Matthew McAlvanah:

   The President Barack Obama administration has grown the size and membership of the advisory committees that Congress established to add voices that were initially left out of the process, including labor and environmental advocates.

4. Ramogi Huma:

   If athletes immediately unionized without a willingness to withhold their labor, they would be pushed into a bad CBA, athletes will wield the most leverage toward a fair agreement by first establishing employee status, which will lead toward free market wages.

5. Vicki Salemi:

   It was a tight labor market, job seekers were more in the driver's seat. Now, it's more of an influx of candidates at the same time in multiple industries.

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