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Definition of labor: 1. A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 177 acres.
2. A store or set of stopes.
3. Any pang or distress.
4. Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history.
5. Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort directed to some useful end, as agriculture, manufactures, and like; servile toil; exertion; work.
6. That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
7. The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
8. To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth.
9. To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard, wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden; to be burdened; - often with under, and formerly with of.
10. To belabor; to beat.
11. To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil.
12. To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.
13. To form or fabricate with toil, exertion, or care.
14. To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
15. To prosecute, or perfect, with effort; to urge streuously; as, to labor a point or argument.
16. To work at; to work; to till; to cultivate by toil.
17. Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.

Synonyms:

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strenuousness, exertion, onerousness

performance, motion, practice, movement, deed, operation, behavior, action, effort, activity

react, act, enterprise, exercise, move, comport, do, execute, work, transact, conduct, officiate, perpetrate, behave, operate, appear, function, endeavor, perform

toil, chore, task

career, job, holding, affair, commerce, commission, assignment, establishment, vocation, proprietorship, industry, situation, concern, transaction, corporation, occupation, partnership, calling, barter, interest, livelihood, trade, selling, posting, consortium, negotiation, service, retailing, firm, business, exchange, profession, company, management, merchant, employment, position, busy work, station, specialty, venture, market

wield, discharge, exert, employ, apply, expend