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labour or (N Am) labor
noun
1 strenuous and prolonged work, especially of the physical kind.
2 (usu labours) the amount of effort someone puts in to something Despite his labours, the garden was still a mess .
3 working people or their productive output regarded collectively as a resource or as a political force talks between management and labour .
4 the process of giving birth, especially from the point when the contractions of the uterus begin.
5 (Labour) Brit the Labour Party.
adjective
a in compounds referring or relating to hard work;
b referring or relating to working people or their productive output joined the labour force .
verb (laboured , labouring )
1 intr to work hard or with difficulty.
2 intr to progress or move slowly and with difficulty The old man laboured up the hill .
3 intr to spend a lot of time and effort in the hope of achieving something laboured endlessly for human rights .
[14c: from Latin labor ]
labour a or the point
1 to spend an excessive length of time on one particular subject or issue.
2 to go into one particular subject or issue in too much detail.
3 to keep returning tediously to one particular subject or issue.
labour under a delusion, misapprehension, misconception, etc to proceed on the basis of a mistaken belief or error.
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