labour

1. noun

1)

manual labour

Syn:

work, toil, exertion, industry, drudgery, effort; informal slog, grind

2)

the conflict between capital and labour

Syn:

workers, employees, working people, labourers, workforce, staff, labour force

3)

a difficult labour

Syn:

childbirth, birth, delivery

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Ant:

rest, management

2. verb

1)

a project on which he had laboured for many years

Syn:

work (hard), toil, slave (away), grind away, struggle, strive, exert oneself; informal slog away, plug away

2)

Newcastle laboured to break down their defence

Syn:

strive, struggle, endeavour, work, try hard, make every effort, do one's best, do one's utmost, do all one can, give one's all, go all out, fight, exert oneself; informal bend/lean over backwards, pull out all the stops