labor labour toil | productive work (especially physical work done for wages), his labor did not require a great deal of skill |
manual labor manual labour | labor done with the hands |
labor of love labour of love | productive work performed voluntarily without material reward or compensation |
labor camp labour camp | a penal institution for political prisoners who are used as forced labor |
labor labour working class proletariat | a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages, there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field |
labor party labour party | a left-ofenter political party formed to represent the interest of ordinary working people |
British Labour Party Labour Party Labour Labor | a political party formed in Great Britain in , characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries |
International Labor Organization International Labour Organization ILO | the United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor |
unskilled person | a person who lacks technical training |
premature labor premature labour | labor beginning prior to the th week of gestation |
parturiency labor labour confinement lying-in travail childbed | concluding state of pregnancy, from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child, she was in labor for six hours |
birth pangs labor pains labour pains | a regularly recurrent spasm of pain that is characteristic of childbirth |
labor labour | undergo the efforts of childbirth |
tug labor labour push drive | 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 |
labor labour toil fag travail grind drudge dig moil | work hard, She was digging away at her math homework, Lexicographers drudge all day long |
labor-intensive labour-intensive | requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital, cottage industries are labor intensive |
incompetent unskilled | not doing a good job, incompetent at chess |
amateurish amateur inexpert unskilled | lacking professional skill or expertise, a very amateurish job, inexpert but conscientious efforts, an unskilled painting |
unskilled | not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency, unskilled in the art of rhetoric, an enthusiastic but unskillful mountain climber, unskilled labor, workers in unskilled occupations are finding fewer and fewer job opportunities, unskilled workmanship |