Word

labour, n.
(labours)
freq. cnt. 1

a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
<noun.group> freq. cnt.: 22 freq. cnt.: 20 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

labor labour proletariat working class

sample sentences

"there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

proletarian

semantic pointers

hypernym

class, social class, stratum, socio-economic class

hyponym

labor force, labor pool lumpenproletariat organized labor

member meronym

worker, proletarian, prole

productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
<noun.act> freq. cnt.: 20 freq. cnt.: 20

labor labour toil

sample sentences

"his labor did not require a great deal of skill"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

laborious labor

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

labour labour

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

toil

semantic pointers

hyponym

roping corvee plodding, drudgery, grind, donkeywork effort, exertion, elbow grease, travail, sweat hunting, hunt hackwork haymaking manual labor, manual labour overwork, overworking slavery

hypernym

work

concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
<noun.state> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

childbed confinement labor labour lying-in parturiency travail