labour
გამოთქმა:
/ˈleɪbə/
არსებითი სახელი
Universal
1work, especially physical work:the price of repairs includes labour, parts, and VAT manual labour workers, especially manual workers, considered collectively:non-union casual labour workers considered as a social class or political force: [as modifier]:the labour movement [as modifier] (Labour) a government department concerned with a nation’s workforce:the Labour Secretary
2 (Labour) [treated as singular or plural] the Labour Party: [as modifier]:the Labour leader
3the process of childbirth from the start of uterine contractions to delivery:a woman in labour
1work hard; make great effort:they laboured from dawn to dusk she was patiently labouring over her sketchbooks work at an unskilled manual occupation:he was eking out an existence by labouring (as adjective labouring)the labouring classes [with object] archaic till (the ground):the land belonged to him who laboured it
2have difficulty in doing something despite working hard:United laboured against confident opponents [with adverbial of direction] move or proceed with difficulty:they laboured up a steep, tortuous track (of an engine) work noisily and with difficulty: the wheels churned, the engine labouring (of a ship) roll or pitch heavily: (as adjective labouring)occasionally the labouring ship spat the caulking from some underwater seam
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1carry (a very heavy load) with difficulty: two servants appeared, labouring under the weight of a kitchen table
2be misled by (a mistaken belief):you’ve been labouring under a misapprehension