All labor synonyms
laΒ·bor
L l noun labor
- employee β A person employed for wages or salary, especially at nonexecutive level.
- hack β to place (something) on a hack, as for drying or feeding.
- hand β Learned [lur-nid] /ΛlΙr nΙͺd/ (Show IPA), 1872β1961, U.S. jurist.
- help β to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
- helper β a person or thing that helps or gives assistance, support, etc.
- hireling β a person who works only for pay, especially in a menial or boring job, with little or no concern for the value of the work.
- instrument β a mechanical tool or implement, especially one used for delicate or precision work: surgical instruments.
- learner β a person who is learning; student; pupil; apprentice; trainee.
- operative β a person engaged, employed, or skilled in some branch of work, especially productive or industrial work; worker.
- prentice β a male given name.
- proletariat β common people, working class
- toiler β hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
- blue collar β of or relating to wage-earning workers who wear work clothes or other specialized clothing on the job, as mechanics, longshoremen, and miners. Compare white-collar.
- rank and file β the members of a group or organization apart from its leaders or officers.
- childbirth β Childbirth is the act of giving birth to a child.
- delivery β Delivery or a delivery is the bringing of letters, parcels, or other goods to someone's house or to another place where they want them.
- confinement β Confinement is the state of being forced to stay in a prison or another place which you cannot leave.
- contractions β Plural form of contraction.
- birth β When a baby is born, you refer to this event as his or her birth.
- childbearing β Childbearing is the process of giving birth to babies.
- parturition β the process of bringing forth young.
- throes β a violent spasm or pang; paroxysm.
- birth pangs β plural of birth pang.
- task β a definite piece of work assigned to, falling to, or expected of a person; duty.
- mission β a city in S Texas.
- duty β something that one is expected or required to do by moral or legal obligation.
- occupation β a person's usual or principal work or business, especially as a means of earning a living; vocation: Her occupation was dentistry.
verb labor
- bear down β If someone or something bears down on you, they move quickly towards you in a threatening way.
- pour it on β to flatter profusely
- exert β Apply or bring to bear (a force, influence, or quality).
- grapple β to hold or make fast to something, as with a grapple.
- wrestle β to engage in wrestling.
- agonize β If you agonize over something, you feel very anxious about it and spend a long time thinking about it.
- burn the candle at both ends β to exhaust oneself, esp by being up late and getting up early to work
- slog β to hit hard, as in boxing or cricket; slug.
- sweat blood β to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
- complain β to make an accusation; bring a formal charge
- seize up β to take hold of suddenly or forcibly; grasp: to seize a weapon.
- malfunction β failure to function properly: a malfunction of the liver; the malfunction of a rocket.
- falter β to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.
- crash β A crash is an accident in which a moving vehicle hits something and is damaged or destroyed.
- play up β a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- stall β a pretext, as a ruse, trick, or the like, used to delay or deceive.
- stagger β to walk, move, or stand unsteadily.
- lumber β timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.
- trudge β to walk, especially laboriously or wearily: to trudge up a long flight of steps.
- trail β to drag or let drag along the ground or other surface; draw or drag along behind.
- overemphasize β to emphasize excessively.
- go on β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- dwell on β to live or stay as a permanent resident; reside.