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labor

noun as in person(s) performing service

noun as in childbirth process

verb as in work very hard

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Example Sentences

In just one week out of the last 23—dating all the way back to March—weekly jobless claims have come in above 1 million, adding to the carnage in the labor market.

From Fortune

Investigators found the ZIP code protocol was also on the books at Lovelace’s emergency department, in addition to its labor and delivery and perinatal care units.

One in every two Nigerians in the country’s labor force is either unemployed or underemployed.

From Quartz

Depending who you ask, though, these labor savings don’t quite carry over to cost savings for the final consumer.

They can be put to frequent use without requiring more paid labor hours, they are always compliant, and some can even provide the data to prove that they have scoured every inch assigned.

Expensive day care pushes women out of the labor market while men continue to work outside the home.

Public sector unions have also fractured the labor movement itself.

In Turkey, crime groups in border areas are exploiting the labor of Syrian male refugees who cannot find legitimate employment.

Many more illegal migrants face labor trafficking in Europe as they flee the conflict regions of North Africa and the Middle East.

In the summer of 2014, they both were sentenced to 4-1/2 years in a labor camp.

All over the world the just claims of organized labor are intermingled with the underground conspiracy of social revolution.

The blind Samson of labor will seize upon the pillars of society and bring them down in a common destruction.

The poverty of earlier days was the outcome of the insufficiency of human labor to meet the primal needs of human kind.

Beggars are not abundant; but women are required to labor quite extensively in the fields.

Labor, so it was argued, was perpetually being saved by the constant introduction of new uses of machinery.

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When To Use

What are other ways to say labor?

Labor particularly denotes hard manual work: backbreaking labor; arduous labor. Drudgery suggests continuous, dreary, and dispiriting work, especially of a menial or servile kind: the drudgery of household tasks.  Toil suggests wearying or exhausting labor: toil that breaks down the worker’s health. Work is the general word and may apply to exertion that is either easy or hard: fun work; heavy work. 

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On this page you'll find 188 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to labor, such as: activity, employment, energy, industry, job, and chore.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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