labor

• activity
• childbirth
• drudgery
• effort
• employment
• endeavor
• energy
• exertion
• fatigue
• headache
• industry
• job
• laborer
• pains
• product
• production
• slave
• slavery
• strive
• struggle
• sweat
• tend
• toil
• work
• work force
• worker
• yield

• break
• breeze
• bum
• chill
• cinch
• decompression
• duck soup
• ease
• entertainment
• facility
• fluency
• fun
• idle
• idleness
• ignore
• inactivity
• indolence
• kid stuff
• laziness
• leisure
• let up
• lethargy
• loaf
• lounge
• neglect
• play
• recreation
• relaxation
• rest
• setup
• shirk
• slacken
• smoothness
• snap
• unemployment

• noun
  1. Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
  2. That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
  3. Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.
  4. A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
  5. The act of a mother giving birth.
  6. The time period during which a mother gives birth.
  7. The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
  8. An old measure of land area in Mexico and Texas, approximately 177 acres.
• verb
  1. To toil, to work.
  2. To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).
  3. To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard or wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden.
  4. To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
  5. To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.

• The construction site was abuzz with the sounds of labor as workers built the new skyscraper.
• The expectant mother was in the early stages of labor when she arrived at the hospital.
• The farmers put in long hours of hard labor to bring in the harvest.
• The history museum showcased the tools used in manual labor during the industrial revolution.
• The company acknowledged the dedication and commitment of its employees with a special labor appreciation event.

backbreaking

• arduous
• challenging
• demanding
• difficult
• exhausting
• formidable
• grueling
• hard
• heavy
• laborious
• rigorous
• tough

backstabber

• accomplice
• collaborator
• plotter
• traitor

backstabbers

• accomplice
• collaborator
• plotter
• traitor
• traitors

bang away

• labor
• strive
• struggle
• work

banged away

• labored
• struggled
• worked
• wrought

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