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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

Negative campaigning dominated the race as business interests and labor unions battled for their favored candidate.

This difficult angle allows him to ask more pointed questions about consumption and labor.

Combs is charged with leading an enterprise with a persistent pattern of racketeering activity from 2008 to 2024 that included Combs and his co-conspirators engaging in kidnapping, arson, and forced labor.

Rough, thick hands, toughened by farming and fighting, plunge into a sack of harvested grain, feeling the fruits of their labor.

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

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When To Use

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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