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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   labor

   • IPA[ˈlābər]

   美式

   • n.
     work, especially hard physical work；workers, especially manual workers, considered collectively
   • v.
     work hard; make great effort；work at an unskilled manual occupation

   • verb: labour, 3rd person present: labours, gerund or present participle: labouring, past tense: laboured, past participle: laboured

   • noun: labour, plural noun: labours

2. • 釋義
   • 片語

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. work, especially hard physical work the price of repairs includes labor and parts manual labor 同義詞 task, job, chore, undertaking, mission, ... 更多commission, assignment
   • ▪ workers, especially manual workers, considered collectively nonunion casual labor 同義詞 workers, employees, workmen, workforce, staff, ... 更多working people, blue-collar workers, hands, laborers, labor force, hired hands, proletariat, wage-earners, manpower, human resources, personnel, humorousliveware反義詞 management
   • ▪ manual workers considered as a social class or political force the labor movement
   • ▪ a department of government concerned with a nation's workforce Secretary of Labor
   • 2. (in the UK or Canada) the Labour Party the Labour leader
   • 3. the process of childbirth, especially the period from the start of uterine contractions to delivery his wife is in labor 同義詞 childbirth, birth, birthing, delivery, nativity, ... 更多contractions, labor pains, labor pangs, labor throes, technicalparturition, archaicconfinement, accouchement, lying-in, childbed, travail

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. work hard; make great effort they labored from dawn to dusk she was patiently laboring over her sketchbooks 同義詞 work (hard), toil, slave (away), grub away, plod away, ... 更多grind away, sweat away, struggle, strive, exert oneself, overwork, work one's fingers to the bone, work like a Trojan/dog/slave, keep one's nose to the grindstone, informalslog away, kill oneself, plug away, put one's back into something, peg away, graft, archaicdrudge, travail, moil反義詞 rest, relax, laze
   • ▪ work at an unskilled manual occupation he was eking out an existence by laboring
   • ▪ archaic till (the ground) the land belonged to him who labored it
   • 2. have difficulty in doing something despite working hard Coley labored against confident opponents 同義詞 strive, struggle, endeavor, work, try hard, ... 更多make every effort, do one's best, do one's utmost, do all one can, give (it/something) one's all, go all out, fight, push, be at pains, put oneself out, apply oneself, exert oneself, informalbend/fall/lean over backwards, give it one's best shot, pull out all the stops
   • ▪ move or proceed with difficulty they labored up a steep, tortuous track
   • ▪ (of an engine) work noisily and with difficulty the wheels churned, the engine laboring
   • ▪ (of a ship) roll or pitch heavily the seas ran high, and the ship labored hard
   • 3. (of a woman in childbirth) be in labor she labored very well and comfortably because she was relaxed

   片語

   • labor of Hercules
   • labor of love
   • labor the point
   • labor under