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labor
Overview of noun labor
The noun labor has 7 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (21) labor, labour, toil -- (productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill")
2. (20) labor, labour, working class, proletariat -- (a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field")
3. parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed -- (concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours")
4. labor movement, trade union movement, labor -- (an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement)
5. Labour Party, Labour, Labor Party, Labor -- (a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and the socialization of key industries)
6. Department of Labor, Labor Department, Labor, DoL -- (the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913)
7. undertaking, project, task, labor -- (any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted; "he prepared for great undertakings")
Overview of verb labor
The verb labor has 3 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (5) tug, labor, labour, push, drive -- (strive and make an effort to reach a goal; "She tugged for years to make a decent living"; "We have to push a little to make the deadline!"; "She is driving away at her doctoral thesis")
2. (1) labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil -- (work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long")
3. labor, labour -- (undergo the efforts of childbirth)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun labor
7 senses of labor
Sense 1
labor, labour, toil
=> work
=> activity
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
labor, labour, working class, proletariat
=> class, social class, socio-economic class
=> people
=> group, grouping
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
=> parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing
=> organic process, biological process
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 4
labor movement, trade union movement, labor
=> reform movement
=> movement, social movement, front
=> social group
=> group, grouping
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 5
Labour Party, Labour, Labor Party, Labor
=> party, political party
=> organization, organisation
=> social group
=> group, grouping
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 6
Department of Labor, Labor Department, Labor, DoL
=> executive department
=> federal department, federal office, department of the federal government
=> government department
=> department, section
=> division
=> administrative unit, administrative body
=> unit, social unit
=> organization, organisation
=> social group
=> group, grouping
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 7
undertaking, project, task, labor
=> work
=> activity
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun labor
5 of 7 senses of labor
Sense 1
labor, labour, toil
=> roping
=> corvee
=> drudgery, plodding, grind, donkeywork
=> effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat
=> hunt, hunting
=> hackwork
=> haymaking
=> manual labor, manual labour
=> overwork, overworking
=> slavery
Sense 2
labor, labour, working class, proletariat
=> labor force, labor pool
=> lumpenproletariat
=> organized labor
Sense 3
parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
=> premature labor, premature labour
Sense 4
labor movement, trade union movement, labor
=> Industrial Workers of the World, IWW, I.W.W.
=> unionism, trade unionism
Sense 7
undertaking, project, task, labor
=> cinch, breeze, picnic, snap, duck soup, child's play, pushover, walkover, piece of cake
=> adventure, escapade, risky venture, dangerous undertaking
=> assignment
=> baby
=> enterprise, endeavor, endeavour
=> labor of love, labour of love
=> marathon, endurance contest
=> no-brainer
=> proposition
=> tall order, large order
=> venture
HAS INSTANCE=> Manhattan Project
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun labor
7 senses of labor
Sense 1
labor, labour, toil
=> work
Sense 2
labor, labour, working class, proletariat
=> class, social class, socio-economic class
Sense 3
parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
=> parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing
Sense 4
labor movement, trade union movement, labor
=> reform movement
Sense 5
Labour Party, Labour, Labor Party, Labor
=> party, political party
Sense 6
Department of Labor, Labor Department, Labor, DoL
=> executive department
Sense 7
undertaking, project, task, labor
=> work
Antonyms of noun labor
Member Holonyms of noun labor
Substance Holonyms of noun labor
Part Holonyms of noun labor
1 of 7 senses of labor
Sense 3
parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
PART OF: pregnancy, gestation, maternity
Member Meronyms of noun labor
2 of 7 senses of labor
Sense 2
labor, labour, working class, proletariat
HAS MEMBER: proletarian, prole, worker
Sense 5
Labour Party, Labour, Labor Party, Labor
HAS MEMBER: Labourite
Substance Meronyms of noun labor
Part Meronyms of noun labor
3 of 7 senses of labor
Sense 3
parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
HAS PART: uterine contraction
HAS PART: effacement
HAS PART: asynclitism, obliquity
Sense 4
labor movement, trade union movement, labor
HAS PART: union, labor union, trade union, trades union, brotherhood
Sense 6
Department of Labor, Labor Department, Labor, DoL
HAS PART: Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA
Meronyms of noun labor
5 of 7 senses of labor
Sense 2
labor, labour, working class, proletariat
HAS MEMBER: proletarian, prole, worker
Sense 3
parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
HAS PART: uterine contraction
HAS PART: effacement
HAS PART: asynclitism, obliquity
Sense 4
labor movement, trade union movement, labor
HAS PART: union, labor union, trade union, trades union, brotherhood
Sense 5
Labour Party, Labour, Labor Party, Labor
HAS MEMBER: Labourite
Sense 6
Department of Labor, Labor Department, Labor, DoL
HAS PART: Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA
Holonyms of noun labor
1 of 7 senses of labor
Sense 3
parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
PART OF: pregnancy, gestation, maternity
Attributes of noun labor
Derived Forms of noun labor
3 of 7 senses of labor
Sense 1
labor, labour, toil
RELATED TO>(adj) laborious#1
=> arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome
RELATED TO>(verb) labor#2
=> labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
Sense 3
parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
RELATED TO>(verb) labor#3
=> labor, labour
Sense 7
undertaking, project, task, labor
RELATED TO>(verb) labor#2
=> labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
RELATED TO>(verb) labor#1
=> tug, labor, labour, push, drive
Domain of noun labor
Domain Terms of noun labor
Familiarity of noun labor
labor used as a noun is common (polysemy count =7)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun labor
7 senses of labor
Sense 1
labor, labour, toil
> work
=> wash, washing, lavation
=> action
=> job
=> job
=> operation, procedure
=> service
=> shining, polishing
=> heavy lifting
=> housewifery
=> housework, housekeeping
=> ironing
=> busywork, make-work
=> logging
=> loose end, unfinished business
=> nightwork
=> paperwork
=> welfare work, social service
=> labor, labour, toil
=> subbing, substituting
=> investigation, investigating
=> care, attention, aid, tending
=> duty
=> mission, missionary work
=> spadework
=> timework
=> undertaking, project, task, labor
=> coursework
Sense 2
labor, labour, working class, proletariat
> class, social class, socio-economic class
=> world, domain
=> age class
=> agriculture
=> brotherhood, fraternity, sodality
=> estate, estate of the realm
=> labor, labour, working class, proletariat
=> lower class, underclass
=> middle class, bourgeoisie
=> booboisie
=> commonalty, commonality, commons
=> peasantry
=> demimonde
=> underworld
=> yeomanry
=> caste
=> caste
=> upper class, upper crust
=> ninja
=> firing line
=> immigrant class
=> center
=> old school
=> market
=> craft, trade
=> womanhood, woman, fair sex
Sense 3
parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
> parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing
=> brooding, incubation
=> calving
=> childbirth, childbearing, accouchement, vaginal birth
=> farrow, farrowing
=> hatch, hatching
=> laying, egg laying
=> parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
Sense 4
labor movement, trade union movement, labor
> reform movement
=> Enlightenment, Age of Reason
=> labor movement, trade union movement, labor
Sense 5
Labour Party, Labour, Labor Party, Labor
> party, political party
=> American Labor Party
=> American Party, Know-Nothing Party
=> Anti-Masonic Party
=> Black Panthers
=> Communist Party
=> Conservative Party
=> Constitutional Union Party
=> Democratic Party
=> Democratic-Republican Party
=> Farmer-Labor Party
=> Federalist Party, American Federalist Party, Federal Party
=> Free Soil Party
=> Gironde
=> Green Party
=> Greenback Party
=> Kuomintang, Guomindang
=> Labour Party, Labour, Labor Party, Labor
=> Liberal Party
=> Liberty Party
=> Militant Tendency
=> National Socialist German Workers' Party, Nazi Party
=> People's Party, Populist Party
=> Progressive Party, Bull Moose Party
=> Prohibition Party
=> Republican Party, GOP
=> Social Democratic Party
=> Socialist Labor Party
=> Socialist Party
=> States' Rights Democratic Party, Dixiecrats
=> war party
=> Whig Party
=> third party
=> Opposition
Sense 6
Department of Labor, Labor Department, Labor, DoL
> executive department
=> White House, EXEC
=> Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Department, Agriculture, USDA
=> Department of Commerce, Commerce Department, Commerce, DoC
=> Department of Defense, Defense Department, United States Department of Defense, Defense, DoD
=> Department of Education, Education Department, Education
=> Department of Energy, Energy Department, Energy, DOE
=> Department of Health and Human Services, Health and Human Services, HHS
=> Department of Housing and Urban Development, Housing and Urban Development, HUD
=> Department of Justice, Justice Department, Justice, DoJ
=> Department of Labor, Labor Department, Labor, DoL
=> Department of State, United States Department of State, State Department, State, DoS
=> Department of the Interior, Interior Department, Interior, DoI
=> Department of the Treasury, Treasury Department, Treasury, United States Treasury
=> Department of Transportation, Transportation, DoT
=> Department of Veterans Affairs, VA
=> Department of Commerce and Labor
=> Department of Health Education and Welfare
=> Navy Department
=> War Department
Sense 7
undertaking, project, task, labor
> work
=> wash, washing, lavation
=> action
=> job
=> job
=> operation, procedure
=> service
=> shining, polishing
=> heavy lifting
=> housewifery
=> housework, housekeeping
=> ironing
=> busywork, make-work
=> logging
=> loose end, unfinished business
=> nightwork
=> paperwork
=> welfare work, social service
=> labor, labour, toil
=> subbing, substituting
=> investigation, investigating
=> care, attention, aid, tending
=> duty
=> mission, missionary work
=> spadework
=> timework
=> undertaking, project, task, labor
=> coursework
Meronyms of noun labor
7 senses of labor
Sense 2
labor, labour, working class, proletariat
HAS MEMBER: proletarian, prole, worker
=> class, social class, socio-economic class
=> people
HAS MEMBER: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
Sense 3
parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
HAS PART: uterine contraction
HAS PART: effacement
HAS PART: asynclitism, obliquity
Sense 4
labor movement, trade union movement, labor
HAS PART: union, labor union, trade union, trades union, brotherhood
Sense 5
Labour Party, Labour, Labor Party, Labor
HAS MEMBER: Labourite
=> party, political party
=> organization, organisation
HAS MEMBER: quorum
HAS MEMBER: membership, rank
Sense 6
Department of Labor, Labor Department, Labor, DoL
HAS PART: Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA
=> executive department
=> federal department, federal office, department of the federal government
=> government department
HAS PART: instrumentality
=> department, section
=> division
=> administrative unit, administrative body
=> unit, social unit
=> organization, organisation
HAS MEMBER: quorum
HAS MEMBER: membership, rank
Holonyms of noun labor
1 of 7 senses of labor
Sense 3
parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
PART OF: pregnancy, gestation, maternity
Grep of noun labor
american federation of labor
american federation of labor and congress of industrial organizations
american labor party
bonded labor
department of commerce and labor
department of labor
false labor
farmer-labor party
induction of labor
international labor organization
kurdistan labor pary
labor
labor agreement
labor coach
labor contract
labor day
labor department
labor force
labor leader
labor market
labor movement
labor of love
labor organizer
labor pain
labor pains
labor party
labor pool
labor resources
labor secretary
labor union
laboratory
laboratory bench
laboratory coat
laborer
laboriousness
manual labor
national labor relations board
organized labor
premature labor
secretary of commerce and labor
secretary of labor
socialist labor party
Antonyms of verb labor
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb labor
3 senses of labor
Sense 1
tug, labor, labour, push, drive
=> fight, struggle
=> try, seek, attempt, essay, assay
=> act, move
Sense 2
labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
=> work, do work
Sense 3
labor, labour
=> experience, receive, have, get, undergo
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb labor
1 of 3 senses of labor
Sense 1
tug, labor, labour, push, drive
=> strive, reach, strain
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb labor
3 senses of labor
Sense 1
tug, labor, labour, push, drive
=> fight, struggle
Sense 2
labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
=> work, do work
Sense 3
labor, labour
=> experience, receive, have, get, undergo
'Cause To' of verb labor
Derived Forms of verb labor
3 senses of labor
Sense 1
tug, labor, labour, push, drive
RELATED TO>(noun) labor#7
=> undertaking, project, task, labor
RELATED TO>(noun) laborer#1
=> laborer, manual laborer, labourer, jack
Sense 2
labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
RELATED TO>(noun) labor#1
=> labor, labour, toil
RELATED TO>(noun) labor#7
=> undertaking, project, task, labor
RELATED TO>(noun) laborer#1
=> laborer, manual laborer, labourer, jack
Sense 3
labor, labour
RELATED TO>(noun) labor#3
=> parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
Domain of verb labor
Domain Terms of verb labor
Familiarity of verb labor
labor used as a verb is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Sample Sentences of verb labor
3 senses of labor
Sense 1
tug, labor, labour, push, drive
*> Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
Sense 2
labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
*> Somebody ----s
*> Somebody ----s PP
Sense 3
labor, labour
*> Somebody ----s
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb labor
3 senses of labor
Sense 1
tug, labor, labour, push, drive
> fight, struggle
=> tug, labor, labour, push, drive
=> flounder
Sense 2
labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
> work, do work
=> serve
=> bank
=> fill, take
=> drive
=> tinker
=> serve
=> fink, scab, rat, blackleg
=> labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
=> farm
=> moonlight
=> job
=> man
=> slave, break one's back, buckle down, knuckle down
=> free-lance
=> subcontract
=> turn a trick
=> freelance
Sense 3
labor, labour
> experience, receive, have, get, undergo
=> respire
=> labor, labour
=> suffer, sustain, have, get
=> take
=> horripilate
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb labor
Sense 1
tug, labor, labour, push, drive
=> fight, struggle
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Sense 2
labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
=> work, do work
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Sense 3
labor, labour
=> experience, receive, have, get, undergo
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Grep of verb labor
belabor
labor
Grep of adj labor
labor-intensive
labored
laboring
laborious
laborsaving
Grep of adv labor
laboriously
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