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 |
engagement
participation
involvement
involution | the act of sharing in the activities of a group, the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities |
| group participation | participation by all members of a group |
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 |
participation loan
loan participation
participation financing | a loan that is shared by a group of banks that join to make a loan too big for any one of them alone |
participation
involvement | the condition of sharing in common with others (as fellows or partners etc.) |
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 |