labour (noun)
1: a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field" [syn: labor, working class, proletariat]
2: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours" [syn: parturiency, labor, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed]
3: a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and the socialization of key industries [syn: Labour Party, Labour, Labor Party, Labor]
4: productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill" [syn: labor, toil]
labour
(verb)
1: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: labor, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil]
2: strive and make an effort to reach a goal; "She tugged for years to make a decent living"; "We have to push a little to make the deadline!"; "She is driving away at her doctoral thesis" [syn: tug, labor, push, drive]
3: undergo the efforts of childbirth [syn: labor]