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labours |
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb labour 1 of 2 senses of labour Sense 2 tug, labor, labour, push drive => strive, reach, strain Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb labour 1 of 2 senses of labour Sense 2 tug, labor, labour, push drive => strive, reach, strain => overstrain => extend oneself => kill oneself, overexert oneself => trouble oneself, trouble, bother, inconvenience oneself Entailment of verb labour Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Frequency) of verb labour 2 senses of labour Sense 1 labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil => work do work Sense 2 tug, labor, labour, push drive => fight, struggle Familiarity of verb labour labour used as a verb is rare (polysemy count = 2) Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb labour Sense 1 labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil => work do work -------------- Sense 2 tug, labor, labour, push drive => fight, struggle -------------- Grep of noun labour international labour organization labour labour of love labour pains labour party labourer labourite manual labour premature labour Overview of noun labour The noun labour has 4 senses (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (1) labor, labour, working class, proletariat -- (a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field") 2. parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed -- (concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours") 3. Labour Party, Labour, Labor Party, Labor -- (a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and the socialization of key industries) 4. labor, labour, toil -- (productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill") Overview of verb labour The verb labour has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1. labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil -- (work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long") 2. tug, labor, labour, push drive -- (exert oneself, make an effort to reach a goal; "She tugged for years to make a decent living"; "We have to push a little to make the deadline!"; "She is driving away at her doctoral thesis") Grep of adj labours laboursaving Overview of noun labour The noun labour has 4 senses (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (1) labor, labour, working class, proletariat -- (a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field") 2. parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed -- (concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours") 3. Labour Party, Labour, Labor Party, Labor -- (a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and the socialization of key industries) 4. labor, labour, toil -- (productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill") Overview of verb labour The verb labour has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1. labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil -- (work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long") 2. tug, labor, labour, push drive -- (exert oneself, make an effort to reach a goal; "She tugged for years to make a decent living"; "We have to push a little to make the deadline!"; "She is driving away at her doctoral thesis")
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