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 |
| slack | a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely, he took up the slack |
| slack suit | casual dress consisting of slacks and matching jacket |
slack
slackness | the quality of being loose (not taut), he hadn't counted on the slackness of the rope |
slack water
slack tide | the occurrence of relatively still water at the turn of the (low) tide |
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 |
mire
quagmire
quag
morass
slack | a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot |
slack
slack water | a stretch of water without current or movement, suddenly they were in a slack and the water was motionless |
Morris Esther Morris
Esther Hobart McQuigg Slack Morris | United States suffragist in Wyoming (-) |
slump
slack
drop-off
falloff
falling off | a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality, the team went into a slump, a gradual slack in output, a drop-off in attendance, a falloff in quality |
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 |
| slack | dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve |
labor
labour | undergo the efforts of childbirth |
| slack slake | cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water, slack lime |
abate
let up
slack off slack die away | become less in amount or intensity, The storm abated, The rain let up after a few hours |
slake
abate slack | make less active or intense |
| slow slow down slow up slack slacken | become slow or slower, Production slowed |
slack slacken slack up
relax | make less active or fast, He slackened his pace as he got tired, Don't relax your efforts now |
| slack | release tension on, slack the rope |
| slack | be inattentive to, or neglect, He slacks his attention |
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 |
| slack | avoid responsibilities and work, be idle |
lax
slack | lacking in rigor or strictness, such lax and slipshod ways are no longer acceptable, lax in attending classes, slack in maintaining discipline |
labor-intensive
labour-intensive | requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital, cottage industries are labor intensive |
| slack | flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide, slack water |
loose
slack | not tense or taut, the old man's skin hung loose and grey, slack and wrinkled skin, slack sails, a slack rope |