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 |
| bargaining chip | leverage in the form of an inducement or a concession useful in successful negotiations |
| collective noun | a noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things |
labor contract
labor agreement
collective agreement | contract between labor and management governing wages and benefits and working conditions |
plea bargain
plea bargaining | (criminal law) a negotiation in which the defendant agrees to enter a plea of guilty to a lesser charge and the prosecutor agrees to drop a more serious charge, his admission was part of a plea bargain with the prosecutor, plea bargaining helps to stop the courts becoming congested |
| bargaining | the negotiation of the terms of a transaction or agreement |
| collective bargaining | negotiation between an employer and trade union |
| collective | members of a cooperative enterprise |
| collective farm | a farm operated collectively |
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 |
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 |
| collective security | a system for international peace |
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 |
| collective | set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government, collective farms |
| collective | forming a whole or aggregate |
labor-intensive
labour-intensive | requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital, cottage industries are labor intensive |
corporate
collective | done by or characteristic of individuals acting together, a joint identity, the collective mind, the corporate good |