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labor

noun as in person(s) performing service

noun as in childbirth process

verb as in work very hard

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Example Sentences

Expensive day care pushes women out of the labor market while men continue to work outside the home.

Public sector unions have also fractured the labor movement itself.

In Turkey, crime groups in border areas are exploiting the labor of Syrian male refugees who cannot find legitimate employment.

Many more illegal migrants face labor trafficking in Europe as they flee the conflict regions of North Africa and the Middle East.

In the summer of 2014, they both were sentenced to 4-1/2 years in a labor camp.

All over the world the just claims of organized labor are intermingled with the underground conspiracy of social revolution.

The blind Samson of labor will seize upon the pillars of society and bring them down in a common destruction.

The poverty of earlier days was the outcome of the insufficiency of human labor to meet the primal needs of human kind.

Beggars are not abundant; but women are required to labor quite extensively in the fields.

Labor, so it was argued, was perpetually being saved by the constant introduction of new uses of machinery.

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On this page you'll find 188 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to labor, such as: activity, employment, energy, industry, job, and chore.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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