See labour on Wiktionary
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{ "forms": [ { "form": "labour", "tags": [ "singular" ] }, { "form": "labours", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "expansion": "[POS TABLE]", "name": "noun" } ], "hyphenation": "la‧bour", "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "examples": [ { "text": "The cost of labour is higher than the cost of building materials." } ], "glosses": [ "Labour is the work that people do, usually lifting, moving, building, etc. rather than desk work." ] }, { "examples": [ { "text": "There's a big labour shortage in the construction industry." } ], "glosses": [ "Labour is the people who do this kind of work." ] }, { "examples": [ { "text": "Labour won the election." } ], "glosses": [ "Labour is the name of a big political party in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand." ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/leɪbə/" }, { "audio": "en-uk-labour.ogg", "raw_tags": [ "Audio" ], "tags": [ "UK" ] } ], "word": "labour" } { "forms": [ { "form": "labour", "tags": [ "canonical" ] }, { "form": "labours", "tags": [ "third-person", "singular" ] }, { "form": "laboured", "tags": [ "past" ] }, { "form": "laboured", "tags": [ "past", "participle" ] }, { "form": "labouring", "tags": [ "present", "participle" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "expansion": "[POS TABLE]", "name": "verb" } ], "hyphenation": "la‧bour", "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "Intransitive verbs", "Verbs" ], "examples": [ { "text": "He laboured over the food all afternoon to get ready for dinner." } ], "glosses": [ "If you labour, you work hard." ], "raw_tags": [ "intransitive" ] }, { "categories": [ "Transitive verbs" ], "glosses": [ "If you labour the point, you keep talking about it after people understand it well." ], "raw_tags": [ "transitive" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/leɪbə/" }, { "audio": "en-uk-labour.ogg", "raw_tags": [ "Audio" ], "tags": [ "UK" ] } ], "word": "labour" }
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