rescue
deliverance
delivery
saving | recovery or preservation from loss or danger, work is the deliverance of mankind, a surgeon's job is the saving of lives |
economy
saving | an act of economizing, reduction in cost, it was a small economy to walk to work every day, there was a saving ofcents |
initiation founding
foundation
institution
origination
creation innovation
introduction instauration | the act of starting something for the first time, introducing something new, she looked forward to her initiation as an adult, the foundation of a new scientific society |
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 |
preservation
saving | the activity of protecting something from loss or danger |
face saver
face saving | an act that avoids a loss of face (of dignity or prestige) |
invention
innovation | a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation |
labor camp
labour camp | a penal institution for political prisoners who are used as forced labor |
| saving grace | a redeeming quality or characteristic, her love of music remains her one saving grace, her sense of humor has to be a saving grace, the saving grace for both developments is that they are creating jobs |
invention
innovation
excogitation conception design | the creation of something in the mind |
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 |
grace
saving grace
state of grace | (Christian theology) a state of sanctification by God, the state of one who is under such divine influence, the conception of grace developed alongside the conception of sin, it was debated whether saving grace could be obtained outside the membership of the church, the Virgin lived in a state of grace |
daylight-saving time
daylight-savings time
daylight saving
daylight savings | time during which clocks are set one hour ahead of local standard time, widely adopted during summer to provide extra daylight in the evenings |
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 |
redemptive
redeeming(a) saving(a) | bringing about salvation or redemption from sin, saving faith, redemptive (or redeeming) love |
| face-saving | maintaining dignity or prestige, a face-saving compromise |
| saving | characterized by thriftiness, wealthy by inheritance but saving by constitution- Ellen Glasgow |