"labor" meaning in English

See labor in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈleɪ.bɚ/ [US] Audio: en-us-labor.ogg Forms: labors [plural], labour [alternative]
Rhymes: -eɪbə(ɹ) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} labor (countable and uncountable, plural labors)
  1. (chiefly American spelling) Alternative spelling of labour Tags: US, alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Alternative form of: labour Related terms: laboral, laborious

Verb

IPA: /ˈleɪ.bɚ/ [US] Audio: en-us-labor.ogg Forms: labors [present, singular, third-person], laboring [participle, present], labored [participle, past], labored [past], labour [alternative]
Rhymes: -eɪbə(ɹ) Head templates: {{en-verb}} labor (third-person singular simple present labors, present participle laboring, simple past and past participle labored)
  1. US standard spelling of labour. Tags: US, alt-of, standard Alternative form of: labour
    Sense id: en-labor-en-verb-BM23xfu~ Categories (other): American English

Inflected forms

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        },
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        },
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          "word": "aristocracy of labor"
        },
        {
          "word": "back labor"
        },
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          "word": "belabor"
        },
        {
          "word": "big labor"
        },
        {
          "word": "bonded labor"
        },
        {
          "word": "child labor"
        },
        {
          "word": "day labor"
        },
        {
          "word": "division of labor"
        },
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          "word": "emotional labor"
        },
        {
          "word": "forced labor"
        },
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          "word": "ghost labor"
        },
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          "word": "hard labor"
        },
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          "word": "introversive labor"
        },
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          "word": "labor action"
        },
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          "word": "labor aristocracy"
        },
        {
          "word": "labor camp"
        },
        {
          "word": "Labor Day"
        },
        {
          "word": "laborer"
        },
        {
          "word": "labor exchange"
        },
        {
          "word": "labor force"
        },
        {
          "word": "labor-intensive"
        },
        {
          "word": "labor-intensiveness"
        },
        {
          "word": "laborization"
        },
        {
          "word": "labor law"
        },
        {
          "word": "labor market"
        },
        {
          "word": "labor of love"
        },
        {
          "word": "labor pain"
        },
        {
          "word": "labor power"
        },
        {
          "word": "labor relations"
        },
        {
          "word": "labor-saving"
        },
        {
          "word": "labor share"
        },
        {
          "word": "labor theory of value"
        },
        {
          "word": "labor the point"
        },
        {
          "word": "labor union"
        },
        {
          "word": "labor-value theory"
        },
        {
          "word": "labor value theory"
        },
        {
          "word": "manual labor"
        },
        {
          "word": "means of labor"
        },
        {
          "word": "micro-labor"
        },
        {
          "word": "prison labor"
        },
        {
          "word": "sexual division of labor"
        },
        {
          "word": "Sisyphean labor"
        },
        {
          "word": "slave labor"
        },
        {
          "word": "stoop labor"
        },
        {
          "word": "subject of labor"
        },
        {
          "word": "touch labor"
        },
        {
          "word": "wage labor"
        }
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      "word": "labor camp"
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      "word": "Labor Day"
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      "word": "laborer"
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      "word": "labor exchange"
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      "word": "labor force"
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      "word": "laborization"
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      "word": "labor pain"
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      "word": "labor power"
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      "word": "labor relations"
    },
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      "word": "labor-saving"
    },
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      "word": "labor share"
    },
    {
      "word": "labor theory of value"
    },
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      "word": "labor the point"
    },
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      "word": "labor union"
    },
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      "word": "labor-value theory"
    },
    {
      "word": "labor value theory"
    },
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      "word": "manual labor"
    },
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      "word": "means of labor"
    },
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      "word": "micro-labor"
    },
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      "word": "prison labor"
    },
    {
      "word": "sexual division of labor"
    },
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      "word": "Sisyphean labor"
    },
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      "word": "slave labor"
    },
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      "word": "stoop labor"
    },
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      "word": "subject of labor"
    },
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      "word": "touch labor"
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