Usually means: Effort expended on work tasks.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word labour:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. Labour, labour: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Labour, labour: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. labour: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. labour: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Labour, labour: Vocabulary.com
  6. Labour, labour: Wordnik
  7. Labour, labour: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Labour, labour: Wiktionary
  9. labour: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. labour: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. labour: Dictionary.com
  12. Labour (New Zealand), Labour (UK), Labour (constituency), Labour (economics), Labour: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. labour: Rhymezone
  14. labour: Free Dictionary
  15. labour: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. labour: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Labour (childbirth), Labour (economics), labour: Legal dictionary
  2. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Labour (childbirth), Labour (economics), Labour (political party), labour: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Johnson Bwby (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Pregnancy & Baby (No longer online)
  4. A-Z Family health glossary (No longer online)
  5. Labour (childbirth), labour: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. labour: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Environmental Terminology Discovery Service (No longer online)

(Note: See labouring as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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