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  LABOR, n.  One of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
  
  

  Labor \La"bor\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Labored; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Laboring.] [OE. labouren, F. labourer, L. laborare. See
     Labor, n.] [Written also labour.]
     1. To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with
        painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to
        work; to toil.
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              Adam, well may we labor still to dress
              This garden.                          --Milton.
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     2. To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any
        design; to strive; to take pains.
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     3. To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's
        work under conditions which make it especially hard,
        wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under
        a burden; to be burdened; -- often with under, and
        formerly with of.
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              The stone that labors up the hill.    --Granville.
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              The line too labors, and the words move slow.
                                                    --Pope.
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              To cure the disorder under which he labored. --Sir
                                                    W. Scott.
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              Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden,
              and I will give you rest.             --Matt. xi. 28
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     4. To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be
        in labor.
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     5. (Naut.) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent
        sea. --Totten.
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  Labor \La"bor\ (l[=a]"b[~e]r), n. [OE. labour, OF. labour,
     laber, labur, F. labeur, L. labor; cf. Gr. lamba`nein to
     take, Skr. labh to get, seize.] [Written also labour.]
     1. Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when
        fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from
        sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort directed to some
        useful end, as agriculture, manufactures, and like;
        servile toil; exertion; work.
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              God hath set
              Labor and rest, as day and night, to men
              Successive.                           --Milton.
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     2. Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of
        compiling a history.
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     3. That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that
        which demands effort.
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              Being a labor of so great a difficulty, the exact
              performance thereof we may rather wish than look
              for.                                  --Hooker.
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     4. Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.
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              The queen's in labor,
              They say, in great extremity; and feared
              She'll with the labor end.            --Shak.
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     5. Any pang or distress. --Shak.
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     6. (Naut.) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results
        in the straining of timbers and rigging.
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     7. [Sp.] A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to
        an area of 1771/7 acres. --Bartlett.
  
     8. (Mining.) A stope or set of stopes. [Sp. Amer.]
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     Syn: Work; toil; drudgery; task; exertion; effort; industry;
          painstaking. See Toll.
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  Labor \La"bor\, v. t. [F. labourer, L. laborare.]
     1. To work at; to work; to till; to cultivate by toil.
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              The most excellent lands are lying fallow, or only
              labored by children.                  --W. Tooke.
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     2. To form or fabricate with toil, exertion, or care. ``To
        labor arms for Troy.'' --Dryden.
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     3. To prosecute, or perfect, with effort; to urge
        strenuously; as, to labor a point or argument.
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     4. To belabor; to beat. [Obs.] --Dryden.
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  Labor \La"bor\, n. [OE. labour, OF. labour, laber, labur, F.
     labeur, L. labor; cf. Gr. lamba`nein to take, Skr. labh to
     get, seize.] [Written also labour.]
     1. Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when
        fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from
        sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort directed to some
        useful end, as agriculture, manufactures, and like;
        servile toil; exertion; work.
  
              God hath set Labor and rest, as day and night, to
              men Successive.                       --Milton.
  
     2. Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of
        compiling a history.
  
     3. That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that
        which demands effort.
  
              Being a labor of so great a difficulty, the exact
              performance thereof we may rather wish than look
              for.                                  --Hooker.
  
     4. Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.
  
              The queen's in labor, They say, in great extremity;
              and feared She'll with the labor end. --Shak.
  
     5. Any pang or distress. --Shak.
  
     6. (Naut.) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results
        in the straining of timbers and rigging.
  
     7. [Sp.] A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to
        an area of 1771/7 acres. --Bartlett.
  
     Syn: Work; toil; drudgery; task; exertion; effort; industry;
          painstaking. See Toll.

  Labor \La"bor\, v. t. [F. labourer, L. laborare.]
     1. To work at; to work; to till; to cultivate by toil.
  
              The most excellent lands are lying fallow, or only
              labored by children.                  --W. Tooke.
  
     2. To form or fabricate with toil, exertion, or care. ``To
        labor arms for Troy.'' --Dryden.
  
     3. To prosecute, or perfect, with effort; to urge
        stre?uously; as, to labor a point or argument.
  
     4. To belabor; to beat. [Obs.] --Dryden.

  Labor \La"bor\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Labored; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Laboring.] [OE. labouren, F. labourer, L. laborare. See
     Labor, n.] [Written also labour.]
     1. To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with
        painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to
        work; to toil.
  
              Adam, well may we labor still to dress This garden.
                                                    --Milton.
  
     2. To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any
        design; to strive; to take pains.
  
     3. To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's
        work under conditions which make it especially hard,
        wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under
        a burden; to be burdened; -- often with under, and
        formerly with of.
  
              The stone that labors up the hill.    --Granville.
  
              The line too labors,and the words move slow. --Pope.
  
              To cure the disorder under which he labored. --Sir
                                                    W. Scott.
  
              Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden,
              and I will give you rest.             --Matt. xi. 28
  
     4. To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth.
  
     5. (Naut.) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent
        sea. -- Totten.

  Labor \La"bor\, n. (Mining.)
     A store or set of stopes. [Sp. Amer.]

  labor
       n 1: productive work (especially physical work done for wages);
            "his labor did not require a great deal of skill" [syn:
            labour, toil]
       2: a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work
          for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this
          field" [syn: labour, working class, proletariat]
       3: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to
          the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
          [syn: parturiency, labour, confinement, lying-in,
          travail, childbed]
       4: an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by
          united action especially via labor unions (especially the
          leaders of this movement) [syn: labor movement, trade
          union movement]
       5: a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900;
          characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and
          the socialization of key industries [syn: Labour Party,
          Labour, Labor Party]
       6: the federal department responsible for promoting the working
          conditions of wage earners in the United States; created
          in 1913 [syn: Department of Labor, Labor Department, DoL]
       7: any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted; "he
          prepared for great undertakings" [syn: undertaking, project,
           task]
       v 1: 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" [syn: tug, labour, push, drive]
       2: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework";
          "Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: labour, toil,
           fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil]
       3: undergo the efforts of childbirth [syn: labour]

  labor
     Λατινικά n.
     1 κόπος, μόχθος
     2 εργασία
     3 φιλοπονία
     4 ταλαιπωρία
     5 άλγος, πόνος
     6 νόσος
     7 πάθος

  labor
     Catalan n.
     labour, work
     Hungarian n.
     (lb hu informal) laboratory
     Spanish n.
     1 (l en labor)
     2 job, task, chore
     3 work, effort
     4 needlework, embroidery

  Labor
     n.
     (lb en Australian politics informal) The (w: Australian Labor Party).
     n.
     (surname en from=French).

  labor
     alt.
     (label en chiefly US) (alt sp en labour)
     n.
     (label en chiefly US) (alt sp en labour)
     vb.
     (standard spelling of en from=American labour)

  Labor
     n.
     (lb en Australian politics informal) The (w: Australian Labor Party).
     n.
     (surname en from=French).

  labor
     Catalan n.
     labour, work
     Hungarian n.
     (lb hu informal) laboratory
     Spanish n.
     1 (l en labor)
     2 job, task, chore
     3 work, effort
     4 needlework, embroidery

  Labor
     n.
     (lb en Australian politics informal) The (w: Australian Labor Party).
     n.
     (surname en from=French).

  labor
     Catalan n.
     labour, work
     Hungarian n.
     (lb hu informal) laboratory
     Spanish n.
     1 (l en labor)
     2 job, task, chore
     3 work, effort
     4 needlework, embroidery

  Labor
     n.
     (lb en Australian politics informal) The (w: Australian Labor Party).
     n.
     (surname en from=French).

  labor
     Espanja n.
     1 työ, vaivannäkö, uurastus
     2 tehtävä
     3 kyntäminen, peltotyö, maanmuokkaustyö
     Latina n.
     työ
     Latina vb.
     1 liukastua
     2 liukua

  labor
     Latin n.
     arbete

  Labor
     Tyska n.
     labb, labbis; ''kort för'' Laboratorium

  Labor /laˈboːɐ̯/ /ˈlaːboːɐ̯/ 
  лаборатория
  Räumlichkeit oder Einrichtung, in der wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen, Analysen und Versuche durchgeführt werden

  Labor /laˈboːɐ̯/ /ˈlaːboːɐ̯/ 
  εργαστήριο
  Räumlichkeit oder Einrichtung, in der wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen, Analysen und Versuche durchgeführt werden

  Labor /lˈɑboːɾ/ 
  lab , laboratory 
        "Sentinella-Labor"  - sentinel laboratory, sentinel lab (epidemiology)
        "im Labor nachgewiesen"  - laboratory-confirmed
     Synonym: Laboratorium
  
   see: Labors, Labore, Laboratorien, klinisches Labor, kriminaltechnisches Labor, Beobachtungslabor
  

  Labor /laˈboːɐ̯/ /ˈlaːboːɐ̯/ 
  laboratorio
  Räumlichkeit oder Einrichtung, in der wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen, Analysen und Versuche durchgeführt werden

  Labor /laˈboːɐ̯/ /ˈlaːboːɐ̯/ 
  laboratoire, labo
  Räumlichkeit oder Einrichtung, in der wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen, Analysen und Versuche durchgeführt werden

  Labor /laˈboːɐ̯/ /ˈlaːboːɐ̯/ 
  laboratorium
  Räumlichkeit oder Einrichtung, in der wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen, Analysen und Versuche durchgeführt werden

  Labor /laˈboːɐ̯/ /ˈlaːboːɐ̯/ 
  laboratorium, pracownia
  Räumlichkeit oder Einrichtung, in der wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen, Analysen und Versuche durchgeführt werden

  Labor /laˈboːɐ̯/ /ˈlaːboːɐ̯/ 
  лаборатория
  Räumlichkeit oder Einrichtung, in der wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen, Analysen und Versuche durchgeführt werden

  Labor /laˈboːɐ̯/ /ˈlaːboːɐ̯/ 
  laboratorio
  Räumlichkeit oder Einrichtung, in der wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen, Analysen und Versuche durchgeführt werden

  Labor /laˈboːɐ̯/ /ˈlaːboːɐ̯/ 
  laboratorium, labb
  Räumlichkeit oder Einrichtung, in der wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen, Analysen und Versuche durchgeführt werden

  Labor /lˈɑboːɾ/ 
  laboratuvar

  labor /lˈeɪbə/
  arbeidsmark

  Labor /lˈeɪbə/
  العمل

  labor /lˈeɪbə/
  pracovat

  labor /lˈeɪbə/ 
  námaha

  labor /lˈeɪbə/ 
  práce (zejm. manuální)
  

  labor /lˈeɪbə/
  námaha

  labor /lˈeɪbə/
   [Am.] Arbeit  [mühevolle]
     Synonym: labour
  

  labor /lˈeɪbə/
   [Am.] Arbeit  [econ.]
           Note: als Arbeitsleistung für einen Arbeitgeber
     Synonym: labour
  

  labor /lˈeɪbə/
   [Am.] die Arbeitnehmer  [econ.]  [pol.]
     Synonym: labour
  

  labor /lˈeɪbə/
   [Am.] die Arbeiterschaft  [pol.]  [soc.]
        "organized labour/labor"  - die organisierte Arbeiterschaft
     Synonyms: the working class, workmen, labour
  

  labor /lˈeɪbə/
   [Am.] Arbeitskräfte 
     Synonyms: labour force, labor force, labour, workforce, human resources, workers
  
   see: cheap labo(u)r, foreign labo(u)r, shortage of labo(u)r, senior employees, illicit labour
  

  labor /lˈeɪbə/
   [Am.] Wehen , Geburtswehen 
        "be in labour / labor"  - in den Wehen liegen
        "premature labour / labor pains"  - vorzeitige Wehen, vorzeitig einsetzende Wehen
        "premature labour / labor"  - vorzeitige Wehen, vorzeitig einsetzende Wehen
     Synonyms: contractions, labour pains, labour, labor pains, travail
  
   see: have contractions, induce labour
  

  labor /lˈeɪbə/ 
   [Am.] schwer arbeiten, schuften, rackern 
     Synonyms: work hard, labour, slave away, toil, toil away, moil, drudge, travail
  
   see: working hard, labouring, laboring, slaving away, toiling, toiling away, moiling, drudging, travailing, worked hard, laboured, labored, slaved away, toiled, toiled away, moiled, drudged, travailed
  

  labor /lˈeɪbə/
  porod, posao, rad, raditi, sindikat

  labor /lˈeɪbə/
  1. munkásosztály
  2. munka
  3. szülés
  4. vajúdás
  5. munkások
  6. munkaerô
  7. dolog

  labor /lˈeɪbə/
  ufficio di collocamento

  labour, labor /ˈleɪbə/
  I.   1.  praca
   2.  siła robocza
   3.  [u kobiety]  poród
  II.   1.  [form]  [ciężko]  pracować
   2.  [łudzić się]  być ofiarą (under sth - czegoś)
   3.  [trudzić się]  męczyć się, pocić się (at - przy)  (over - nad)
   4.  [np. nad punktem]  rozwodzić się (sth - nad czymś)

  labor /læbərikstʃeindʒ/
  bolsadetrabajo

  labor /lˈeɪbə/
  1. (İng.) labour  çalışmak, çabalamak
  2. uğraşmak, emek vermek, sıkıntı çekmek, güçlükle ilerlemek
  3. (den.) denizlerde çalkalanmak, çok hırpalanmak
  4. doğurma halinde olmak
  5. ağrı çekmek
  6. emekle meydana getirmek. l will not labor the point. işin teferruatına girişmeyeceğim. labored  güçlükle yapılan, meşakkatli
  7. fazla şatafatlı.

  labor /lˈeɪbə/
  1. (İng.) labour  çalışma, iş, emek
  2. işçi sınıfı
  3. doğum ağrıları
  4. zahmet, meşakkat, sıkıntı, zorluk
  5. (den.) fırtınada geminin şiddetle çalkalanması. Labor Day ABD eylülün ilk pazartesi gününe tesadüf eden işçi bayramı. labor dispute iş ihtilafı, iş anlaşmazlığı. labor exchange iş ve işçi bulma kurumu. laborintensive  makinalardan ziyade el emeği ile yapılan veya yürütülen (iş, mahsul) Labour Party İşçi Partisi. labor relations iş münasebetleri
  6. işçi ve işveren ilişkileri. laborsaving  zahmeti azaltan, kolaylaştırıcı. labor union işçi sendikası. a labor of love hatır veya zevk için yapılan iş, menfaat mukabilinde olmayan iş, gönüllü yapılan iş. forced labor angarya. hand labor el ile yapılan iş. hard labor ağır iş cezası. in labor doğurma halinde. Ministry of Labour (İng.) Çalışma Bakanlığı.

  labor /lˈɑbor/
  lab

  labor /lˌabɪkandˈɪn/
  bir tür hint kılıcı

  labor (labi, lapsum) 
  1. gleiten
  2. verfallen, fallen, einstürzen

  labor (laboris ) 
  1. Arbeit
  2. Mühe, Bemühung, Anstrengung

  labor /lˈabɔr/
  job, work

  labor /lˌabaɾˈedæ/
  Arbeit

  labor /kibˈowts/
  job, work

  labor /laβˈoɾ/
  llabor  

  labor /laβˈoɾ/ 
  Werk 

  labor /laβˈoɾ/ 
  Arbeit 

  
/ˈɫeɪbɝ/

  LABOR. Continued operation; work. 
       2. The labor and skill of one man is frequently used in a partnership, 
  and valued as equal to the capital of another. 
       3. When business has been done for another, and suit is brought to 
  recover a just reward, there is generally contained in the declaration, a 
  count for work and labor. 
       4. Where penitentiaries exist, persons who have committed crimes are 
  condemned to be imprisoned therein at labor. 
  
  

  206 Moby Thesaurus words for "labor":
     accouchement, activities, activity, affair, affairs, aim,
     always trot out, amplify, assignment, bag, be busy, be confined,
     be determined, be employed, bear, bear a child, bear young,
     belabor, birth, birth throes, birthing, blessed event, blunder,
     business, busywork, calve, careen, career, carry on business, cast,
     char, chare, charge, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, chore,
     commerce, commission, complete, concern, concernment, confinement,
     cultivate, delivery, detail, dirty work, do business, do chars,
     do the chores, donkeywork, dress, drive, drop, drudge, drudgery,
     duty, dwell on, dwell upon, effort, elaborate, employ, employees,
     employment, endeavor, endure, enlarge, enlarge upon,
     enter into detail, enterprise, errand, exercise, exertion, expand,
     fag, falter, farrow, fatigue, fawn, fish to fry, flounce, flounder,
     foal, follow a trade, function, genesis, give birth, giving birth,
     go into, grind, hammer away at, handiwork, handwork, hard work,
     harp on, hatching, have, have a baby, have a job, have young,
     having a baby, homework, industry, insist upon, interest, job,
     job of work, keep up, kitten, labor under, laborers, laboriousness,
     lamb, lick, lick of work, lie in, litter, lookout, lurch,
     make-work, manual labor, matter, matters in hand, mission, moil,
     moonlight, multiparity, nascency, nativity, occupation, odd job,
     overdo, overemphasize, overstress, pains, parturition,
     piece of work, pitch, pitch and plunge, plunge,
     practice a profession, project, pup, rat race, reel, resolve, rock,
     roll, scut work, seek, seethe, service, set up shop, slave,
     slavery, slogging, spadework, spell out, stagger, stay employed,
     stint, strain, strive, stroke, stroke of work, struggle, study,
     stumble, suffer, sway, sweat, sweat blood, swing, swot, task, tend,
     the Nativity, the stork, thing, things to do, thrash about,
     thresh over, throw, tiresome work, toil, toss, toss and tumble,
     toss and turn, totter, transact business, travail, treadmill, tug,
     tumble, turn a hand, undertaking, wallop, wallow, welter, whelp,
     work, work at, work for, work out, workers, yean
  
  

  n. 劳动,劳工,分娩;
  v. 劳动,详细分析;

     n. 劳动,努力,工作,劳工,分娩
     vi. 劳动,努力,苦干
     vt. 详细分析,麻烦