labor

productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.

Antonyms:

rest, leisure, idleness

the body of persons engaged in such activity, especially those working for wages.

Synonyms:

working class

this body of persons considered as a class (management andcapital ).

physical or mental work, especially of a hard or fatiguing kind; toil.

Synonyms:

exertion

Antonyms:

rest, leisure, idleness

a job or task done or to be done.

the physical effort and periodic uterine contractions of childbirth.

Synonyms:

delivery, parturition

the interval from the onset of these contractions to childbirth.

Also called Labor Department.  Informal. Labor. the Department of Labor.

to perform labor; exert one's powers of body or mind; work; toil.

Synonyms:

drudge

Antonyms:

rest

to strive, as toward a goal; work hard (often followed byfor ).

to labor for peace.

to act, behave, or function at a disadvantage (usually followed byunder ).

to labor under a misapprehension.

to be in the actual process of giving birth.

to roll or pitch heavily, as a ship.

to develop or dwell on in excessive detail.

Don't labor the point.

Synonyms:

overdo, belabor

to burden or tire.

to labor the reader with unnecessary detail.

British Dialect. to work or till (soil or the like).