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Adjective: labouring ley-bu-ring Usage: Brit, Cdn (US: laboring)
- Doing arduous or unpleasant work
"the bent backs of labouring slaves picking cotton"; "labouring peasants"; - drudging, laboring [US], toiling Verb: labour ley-bu(r) Usage: Brit, Cdn (US: labor)
- Strive and make an effort to reach a goal
"She laboured for years to make a decent living"; - tug, labor [US], push, drive, plow [US], plough on [Brit], plow on [US], plough [Brit], sweat - Work hard
"Lexicographers labour all day long"; - labor [US], toil, fag [informal], travail [literary], grind [informal], drudge, dig [US, informal], moil [N. Amer] - Undergo the efforts of childbirth
- labor [US]
See also: busy, press on Type of: do work, experience, fight, have, struggle, undergo, work Encyclopedia: Labouring Labour, Democracy and Freedom Block |