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Definition of Labor

Labor Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort directed to some useful end, as agriculture, manufactures, and like; servile toil; exertion; work. Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history. That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort. Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth. Any pang or distress. The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging. A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 177/ acres. To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil. To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains. To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard, wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden; to be burdened; -- often with under, and formerly with of. To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth. To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea. To work at; to work; to till; to cultivate by toil. To form or fabricate with toil, exertion, or care. To prosecute, or perfect, with effort; to urge stre/uously; as, to labor a point or argument. To belabor; to beat. A store or set of stopes. Related Definitions: Accomplishment, Against, Agriculture, An, And, Any, Area, Argument, As, At, Be, Beat, Belabor, Bodily, Burden, Burdened, By, Care, Childbirth, Compiling, Cultivate, Design, Difficulties, Directed, Disease, Distinction, Distress, Do, Effort, End, Equivalent, Especially, Exercise, Exert, Exertion, Fabricate, Fatiguing, For, Form, Formerly, From, Hard, Heavily, History, In, Intellectual, Irksome, It, Labor, Land, Like, Make, Measure, Mental, Mind, Move, Muscular, Of, Often, One, Opposition, Oppressed, Or, Painful, Pains, Pang, Particularly, Perfect, Physical, Pitch, Pitching, Point, Prosecute, Prosecution, Rigging, Roll, Sea, Servile, Set, Ship, Slowly, Some, Sportive, Store, Straining, Stre, Strength, Strive, Suffer, Take, Texas, That, The, Till, To, Toil, Tossing, Travail, Turbulent, Unavoidable, Under, Urge, Useful, Vessel, Wearisome, When, Which, With, Work

Labor Quotations All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. Martin Luther King, Jr. A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government. Thomas Jefferson But genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it. Ralph Waldo Emerson To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. Samuel Johnson If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Labor Translations labor in German is Arbeit {f} labor in Latin is opera, nixor, operor, labor laboris, opus operis labor in Swedish is arbeta

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