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▸ 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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