labor

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  • labour (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada)

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labor (countable and uncountable; plural labors)

  1. Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
    • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
      ...so I set myself to enlarge my cave, and work farther into the earth; for it was a loose sandy rock, which yielded easily to the labour I bestowed on it...
  2. (uncountable) Workers collectively; the workforce; the working class.
  3. (uncountable) The labor union movement; organized labor.
  4. The act of a mother giving birth or the time period during which a mother gives birth.

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  • Adjectives often used with "labor": physical, mental, technical, organized, etc.

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labor (third-person singular simple present labors, present participle laboring, simple past and past participle labored)

  1. (US) spelling of labour; see British/Commonwealth entry for definitions, etymology, pronunciation, translations, etc.

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[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *lāb- (to hang loosely).

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labor (genitive labōris); m, third declension

  1. work

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Number Singular Plural
nominative labor labōrēs
genitive labōris labōrum
dative labōrī labōribus
accusative labōrem labōrēs
ablative labōre labōribus
vocative labor labōrēs

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present active lābor, present infinitive lābī, perfect active lāpsus sum. (deponent)

  1. I slip
  2. I glide, flow

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labor f. (plural labores)

  1. job
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