Definition of labor

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Labor (n.) 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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Labor :: Labor (n.) That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
Labor :: Labor (n.) Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.
Productive :: Productive (a.) Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results; as, productive soil; productive enterprises; productive labor, that which increases the number or amount of products..
Elaboration :: Elaboration (n.) The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
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..
Vanity :: Vanity (n.) That which is vain; anything empty, visionary, unreal, or unsubstantial; fruitless desire or effort; trifling labor productive of no good; empty pleasure; vain pursuit; idle show; unsubstantial enjoyment..
Suspension :: Suspension (n.) Of labor, study, pain, etc..
Work :: Work (n.) Specifically: (a) That which is produced by mental labor; a composition; a book; as, a work, or the works, of Addison. (b) Flowers, figures, or the like, wrought with the needle; embroidery..
Moil :: Moil (v. i.) To soil one's self with severe labor; to work with painful effort; to labor; to toil; to drudge.
Labor :: Labor (n.) Any pang or distress.
Ploughman :: Ploughman (n.) A rustic; a countryman; a field laborer.
Operose :: Operose (a.) Wrought with labor; requiring labor; hence, tedious; wearisome..
Task :: Task (v.) Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount..
Assiduous :: Assiduous (a.) Performed with constant diligence or attention; unremitting; persistent; as, assiduous labor..
Loll :: Loll (v. i.) To let the tongue hang from the mouth, as an ox, dog, or other animal, when heated by labor; as, the ox stood lolling in the furrow..
Wade :: Wade (v. i.) Hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed /lowly among objects or circumstances that constantly /inder or embarrass; as, to wade through a dull book..
Fatigue :: Fatigue (n.) Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength.
Servant :: Servant (n.) One who serves, or does services, voluntarily or on compulsion; a person who is employed by another for menial offices, or for other labor, and is subject to his command; a person who labors or exerts himself for the benefit of another, his master or employer; a subordinate helper..
Unemployed :: Unemployed (a.) Not employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work.
Slave :: Slave (n.) A drudge; one who labors like a slave.
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