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Synonyms for labor
ˈleɪ bərla·bor

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English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  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.

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

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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. labor

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

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

Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 2 votes

  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

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. labornoun

    Synonyms:
    toil, work, exertion, effort, pains, drudgery

  2. labornoun

    Synonyms:
    travail, parturition, childbirth, delivery

  3. laborverb

    Synonyms:
    toll, strive, drudge, work, exert one's self, take pains

  4. laborverb

    Synonyms:
    suffer, be afflicted, be distressed

  5. laborverb

    Synonyms:
    travail, be in travail, be in labor

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. labornoun

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

  2. laborverb

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

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "labor":

    labour, work, working, workers, workforce, action, employment, manpower, job

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How to use labor in a sentence?

  1. Avinash Saoji:

    A total of 12,000 people donated labor, helping clear grass, water weeds, pebbles and mud. Some served free food and drinks.

  2. Scott Morrison:

    Under my government, Australia will be stronger. Under Bill Shorten's Labor government, Australia will be weaker.

  3. Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown:

    I just don't see in this room anyone that's going to give you officers from their ward, everyone out here in this room says' we need more cops.' So the rearranging of officers sounds great but you've got to work to navigate the labor contracts and navigate the political landscape of who gives up officers, who agrees to give you cops over their wards.

  4. Amelia Gracelyn Persia:

    I was already in labor for maybe seven hours, I was like, I cant do this for very long and as soon as I said that, I felt her move down. He said, Should I call 911 ? And I said, I dont think theres time.

  5. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen:

    Considerable progress has been achieved in the recovery of the labor market, though room for further improvement remains.


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