"Labor" meaning in English

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Proper name

Audio: en-au-Labor.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Labor
  1. (Australian politics, informal) The Australian Labor Party. Tags: Australian, informal Categories (topical): Australian politics
    Sense id: en-Labor-en-name-nFURzG1c Topics: government, politics
  2. (UK politics, American spelling, Australian spelling) Misspelling of Labour. (UK political party) Tags: UK, US, alt-of, misspelling Alternative form of: Labour (extra: UK political party) Categories (topical): UK politics
    Sense id: en-Labor-en-name-zbFJrLWC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, Political parties Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 18 68 14 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 18 73 9 Disambiguation of Political parties: 20 74 5 Topics: government, politics
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Proper name

Audio: en-au-Labor.ogg [Australia] Forms: Labors [plural]
Etymology: Variant of Labarre. Etymology templates: {{m|en|Labarre}} Labarre Head templates: {{en-proper noun|s}} Labor (plural Labors)
  1. A surname from French.
    Sense id: en-Labor-en-name-gVOdYfSv Categories (other): English surnames
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Alternative forms

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