Definition of labor

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Labor (n.) A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 177/ acres..

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Remunerate :: Remunerate (v. t.) To pay an equivalent to for any service, loss, expense, or other sacrifice; to recompense; to requite; as, to remunerate men for labor..
Sweat :: Sweat (v. i.) The act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery..
Heaver :: Heaver (n.) One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed on docks in handling freight; as, a coal heaver..
Arduous :: Arduous (a.) Attended with great labor, like the ascending of acclivities; difficult; laborious; as, an arduous employment, task, or enterprise..
Heavy :: Heavy (superl.) Heaved or lifted with labor; not light; weighty; ponderous; as, a heavy stone; hence, sometimes, large in extent, quantity, or effects; as, a heavy fall of rain or snow; a heavy failure; heavy business transactions, etc.; often implying strength; as, a heavy barrier; also, difficult to move; as, a heavy draught..
Trade Union :: Trade union () An organized combination among workmen for the purpose of maintaining their rights, privileges, and interests with respect to wages, hours of labor, customs, etc..
Task :: Task (v.) Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount..
Overlook :: Overlook (v. t.) Hence: To supervise; to watch over; sometimes, to observe secretly; as, to overlook a gang of laborers; to overlook one who is writing a letter..
Unearned :: Unearned (a.) Not earned; not gained by labor or service.
Unlabored :: Unlabored (a.) Not laboriously produced, or not evincing labor; as, an unlabored style or work..
Labor :: Labor (n.) Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history..
Vote :: Vote (n.) Votes, collectively; as, the Tory vote; the labor vote..
Reclaim :: Reclaim (v. t.) Hence: To reduce to a desired state by discipline, labor, cultivation, or the like; to rescue from being wild, desert, waste, submerged, or the like; as, to reclaim wild land, overflowed land, etc..
Rest :: Rest (n.) To cease from action or motion, especially from action which has caused weariness; to desist from labor or exertion..
Apron Man :: Apron man () A man who wears an apron; a laboring man; a mechanic.
Toil :: Toil (v. t.) To labor; to work; -- often with out.
Halberd :: Halberd (n.) An ancient long-handled weapon, of which the head had a point and several long, sharp edges, curved or straight, and sometimes additional points. The heads were sometimes of very elaborate form..
Work :: Work (n.) The matter on which one is at work; that upon which one spends labor; material for working upon; subject of exertion; the thing occupying one; business; duty; as, to take up one's work; to drop one's work..
Wage :: Wage (v. t.) That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; -- at present generally used in the plural. See Wages.
Service :: Service (n.) The deed of one who serves; labor performed for another; duty done or required; office.
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