Usually means: Effort expended on productive tasks.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. labor: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. labor: Merriam-Webster
  3. Labor, labor, labor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. labor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. labor: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Labor, labor: Vocabulary.com
  7. Labor, labor: Wordnik
  8. Labor, labor: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Labor, labor: Wiktionary
  10. labor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. labor: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. labor: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Labor, labor: Dictionary.com
  14. labor (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. labor: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Labor (Israel), Labor (economics), Labor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Labor: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. labor: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. labor: Rhymezone
  20. Labor (nt), labor: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. labor: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Labor: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. labor: FreeDictionary.org
  24. labor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. labor: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. labor: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. labor(e): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. labor-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  4. labor: Glossary of research economics
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. Labor: Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project Management Terms
  7. Labor (childbirth), Labor (physiology), labor: Legal dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Labor (childbirth), Labor (disambiguation), Labor (physiology), Labor: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. labor: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Labor: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Labor (childbirth), Labor (disambiguation), Labor (physiology), labor: Medical dictionary
  5. Labor: Drug Medical Dictionary
  6. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. labor: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. labor: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Labor)

▸ noun:  (Australian politics, informal) The Australian Labor Party.
▸ noun:  A surname from French.
▸ noun:  (chiefly American spelling) Alternative spelling of labour [Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.]
▸ verb:  US standard spelling of labour. [(intransitive) To toil, to work.]
▸ noun:  (UK politics, American spelling, Australian spelling) Misspelling of Labour. (UK political party)

Similar:
drudge, working class, task, proletariat, confinement, project, labour, childbed, lying-in, parturiency, more...

Opposite:
idleness, rest, leisure, relaxation, inactivity

Types:
manual labor, skilled labor, unskilled labor, white-collar labor, blue-collar labor, service labor, agricultural labor, industrial labor, technical labor, more...

Phrases:
labor force, labor market, labor relations, labor movement, in labor, more...

Adjectives:
hard, manual, cheap, skilled, unskilled, free, physical, human, direct, much, agricultural

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Similar:
drudge, working class, task, proletariat, confinement, project, labour, childbed, lying-in, parturiency, more...

Opposite:
idleness, rest, leisure, relaxation, inactivity

Types:
manual labor, skilled labor, unskilled labor, white-collar labor, blue-collar labor, service labor, agricultural labor, industrial labor, technical labor, more...

Phrases:
labor force, labor market, labor relations, labor movement, in labor, labor unions, organized labor, Labor Party, child labor, labor supply, direct labor, labor for, labor union, labor markets, labor organization, more...

Adjectives:
hard, manual, cheap, skilled, unskilled, free, physical, human, direct, much, agricultural

Colors:
    blue,     red,     white,     yellow,     green, more...



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