labor
🇺🇸
/ˈleɪbər/
🇬🇧
/ˈleɪbə/
noun
B2
The physical or mental effort needed to do something.
Many people offer their labor to help their communities.
R
Different tasks or periods of work.
After many years of hard labor, she finally retired.
B2
The group of workers, either in a specific place or in an entire country.
The company is looking to expand its labor force next year.
R
The time or process of giving birth.
The labor lasted for several hours before the baby was born.
intransitive verb
R
To put in a lot of effort to do something.
She has been laboring on the project for months.
R
To work hard, especially in a physical way.
Farmers labor from dawn to dusk during the harvest.
R
To move or function with difficulty.
The truck was laboring under the heavy load as it climbed the hill.
translation
The physical or mental effort needed to do something.; Different tasks or periods of work.; The group of workers, either in a specific place or in an entire country.; The time or process of giving birth.
To put in a lot of effort to do something.; To work hard, especially in a physical way.; To move or function with difficulty.
Word Forms
Progressive
laboring
Past
labored
3rd Present
labors
Plural
labors
Perfect
labored