Synonyms for labour
ˈleɪ bərlabour

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

2. 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, effort, project, labor movement, sweat, working class, toil, parturiency, labor, restriction, lying-in, confinement, exertion, undertaking

3. 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, project, labor movement, labour party, working class, toil, parturiency, labor, lying-in, confinement, labor party, undertaking

4. labor, labour, toilverb

   productive work (especially physical work done for wages)

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

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

5. 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, labor, mash, wear down, savvy, push, grok, wear, bray, dig out, grate, fag out

6. 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, motor, advertise, grind, bear on, repulse, labor, force, ride, push, campaign, tote, push back, toil, beat back

7. labor, labourverb

   undergo the efforts of childbirth

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

Matched Categories

1. • Class
   • Labor Party
   • Undergo

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:3.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "labour":

   work, labor, working, workforce, employment, job, workers, manpower, labor-management, occupational, action, laboral, workplace, workday, pracy, labour-related, labour-capital, worker, labourers, work-related, labour-

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1. Joel Backaler:

   With labour and energy costs rising and the pressure on margins increasing, Chinese companies that want to sell at a premium price need to have something different, for example better quality tyres than those you can find in China.

2. David Gauke:

   Sometimes there is a point where Labour Brexit spokesman Keir Starmer have to judge between Labour Brexit spokesman Keir Starmer own personal interests and the national interest, and the national interest has to come first, but I hope it doesn't come to that.

3. Takuma Ejiri:

   Labour costs in both Indonesia and China have dramatically increased, which has resulted in a tough situation in terms of company profit margins.

4. Pollyanna De Lima:

   Boosted by a solid rise in new work, service sector output in India expanded at a robust rate in February ... Nonetheless, the latest improvement in economic prospects across the sector is yet to feed through to the labour market.

5. Finance Minister Michel Sapin:

   First and foremost we must be firm, doing otherwise would be wrong with respect to (other) labour unions, most of whom support the text.