Usually means: Efforts exerted toward completing tasks.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word labours:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. labours: Merriam-Webster
  2. labours: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Labours, labours: Vocabulary.com
  4. Labour's, Labours, Labours, labour's, labours: Wordnik
  5. labours: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. labours: Wiktionary
  7. labours: Dictionary.com
  8. Labours: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. labours: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. labours: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. labours: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. labours: Medical dictionary

(Note: See labour as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Labour)

noun:  Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
noun:  That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
noun:  (uncountable) Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.
noun:  (uncountable) A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
noun:  (medicine, obstetrics) The act of a mother giving birth.
noun:  The time period during which a mother gives birth.
noun:  (nautical) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
noun:  (historical) A traditional unit of area in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to 177.1 acres or 71.67 ha.
noun:  (uncommon, zoology) A group of moles.
verb:  (intransitive) To toil, to work.
verb:  (transitive) To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).
verb:  To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard or wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden.
verb:  To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
verb:  (nautical) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
noun:  (UK, New Zealand) Short for the Labour Party.
noun:  (UK, Canada) Misspelling of Labor, an Australian political party. [(Australian politics, informal) The Australian Labor Party.]
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