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41labour — [13] Labour comes via Old French labour from Latin labor. This has been linked with the verb labāre ‘slip’, and if the two were related it would mean that the underlying etymological meaning of labour was something like ‘stumble under a burden’.… …
42labour — 1. childbirth Literally, physical toil, but so long standard English that we do not think about it as a euphemism. 2. unemployment A Labour Exchange was an office where those without work went to seek a job and claim money, whence… …
43labour — n. the sequence of actions by which a baby and the afterbirth (placenta) are expelled from the uterus at childbirth. The process usually starts spontaneously about 280 days after conception, but it may be started by artificial means (see… …
44Labour — [ˈleɪbə] I the British labour party II adj Labour [ˈleɪbə] relating to or supporting the British labour party …
45labour — /ˈleɪbə / (say laybuh) noun 1. bodily toil for the sake of gain or economic production. 2. the workers or class of workers engaged in this. 3. work, especially of a hard or fatiguing kind. 4. a work or task done or to be done: the twelve labours… …
46labour — [13] Labour comes via Old French labour from Latin labor. This has been linked with the verb labāre ‘slip’, and if the two were related it would mean that the underlying etymological meaning of labour was something like ‘stumble under a burden’.… …
47Labour — noun Short for the Labour Party. See Also: labour …
48labour — Human labour is regarded in the OT as sharing in the divine purpose (Exod. 20:8; 34:21) because God s work was described in Gen. 1 as creative. Jesus ‘worked’ (John 5:17) by healing on a Sabbath, which he justifies on the ground that God… …
49Labour — 1 noun (uncountable, not with the) the British labour party: We all vote Labour in this house …
50labour — Labor La bor, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Labored}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Laboring}.] [OE. labouren, F. labourer, L. laborare. See {Labor}, n.] [Written also {labour}.] 1. To exert muscular strength; to exert one s strength with painful effort, particularly… …
