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labor

noun as in person(s) performing service

noun as in childbirth process

verb as in work very hard

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Example Sentences

Employee unions promptly struck back with a May 2023 lawsuit as well as a formal labor complaint.

Jackson, they wrote, was “ignorant, inexperienced” and a “man of no labor, no patience . . . wholly unqualified by education, habit and temper for the station of the president.”

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Weiss, for her part, was humbled by the enormity of the labor involved in making a movie.

The higher wages, it said, would balloon hotels’ labor costs so much that sticking to the terms of the deal would be untenable.

Much remains to be seen in terms of what tariffs will be implemented and how these will affect inflation, corporate profits, the labor market and other factors.

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What are other ways to say labor?

Labor particularly denotes hard manual work: backbreaking labor; arduous labor. Drudgery suggests continuous, dreary, and dispiriting work, especially of a menial or servile kind: the drudgery of household tasks.  Toil suggests wearying or exhausting labor: toil that breaks down the worker’s health. Work is the general word and may apply to exertion that is either easy or hard: fun work; heavy work. 

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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