labour
UK (US labor) /ˈleɪbər/ nounDefinition
WORK [U] › work, especially the type of work that needs a lot of physical effort: manual labour
WORKERS [U] › people who work: cheap/skilled labour
BIRTH [C, U] › the stage of pregnancy when a woman has pain in the lower part of her body because the baby is coming out: to be in labour/go into labour labour pains
Labour › [group] short for the Labour Party: I voted Labour (= for the Labour party) at the last election. a Labour MP
(Definition of labour noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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