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Laboring

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Adjective

1. drudging, laboring, labouring, toiling

doing arduous or unpleasant work

Example Sentences:
'drudging peasants'
'the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton'
'toiling coal miners in the black deeps'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Laboring

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verb, noun
the US spelling of labour

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Laboring

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noun
1. 
physical or mental exertion; work; toil
2. 
a specific task; piece of work
3. 
a. 
all wage-earning workers as a group
see also capital1, or management
b. 
all manual workers whose work is characterized largely by physical exertion
4. 
labor unions collectively
5. 
the work accomplished by or the role in production of all workers, esp. workers for wages
6.  [L-]
Labor Party
7.  Medicine
the process or period of childbirth; parturition; esp., the muscular contractions of giving birth
verb intransitive
8. 
to work; toil
9. 
to work hard; exert oneself to get or do something; strive
10. 
a. 
to move slowly and with difficulty
the car labored up the hill
b. 
to pitch and roll heavily
the ship labored in the rough sea
11. 
to be afflicted or burdened with a liability or limitation (with under)
to labor under a delusion
12. 
to undergo, and suffer the pains of, childbirth
verb transitive
13. 
to spend too much time and effort on; develop in too great detail
to labor a point

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Laboring

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n.
1. Physical or mental exertion, especially when difficult or exhausting; work. See Synonyms at work.
2. A specific task or effort, especially a painful or arduous one: "Eating the bread was a labor I put myself through to quiet my stomach" (Gail Anderson-Dargatz).
3. A particular form of work or method of working: manual labor.
4. Work for wages: businesses paying more for labor.
5.
a. Workers considered as a group.
b. The trade union movement, especially its officials.
6. Labor A political party representing workers' interests, especially in Great Britain.
7. The process by which childbirth occurs, beginning with contractions of the uterus and ending with the expulsion of the fetus or infant and the placenta.
v. la·bored, la·bor·ing, la·bors
v.intr.
1. To work; toil: labored in the fields.
2. To strive painstakingly: labored over the needlepoint.
3.
a. To proceed with great effort; plod: labored up the hill.
b. Nautical To pitch and roll.
4. To suffer from distress or a disadvantage: labored under the misconception that others were cooperating.
5. To undergo the labor of childbirth.
v.tr.
1. To deal with in exhaustive or excessive detail; belabor: labor a point in the argument.
2. To distress; burden: I will not labor you with trivial matters.
adj.
1. Of or relating to labor.
2. Labor Of or relating to a Labor Party.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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