labor - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

productive work (especially physical work done for wages)

Synonyms

• labor
• labour
• toil

More generic

• work

More specific

• corvee
• donkeywork
• drudgery
• effort
• elbow grease
• exertion
• grind
• hackwork
• haymaking
• hunt
• hunting
• manual labor
• manual labour
• overwork
• overworking
• plodding
• roping
• slavery
• sweat
• travail

Noun

any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted

Synonyms

• labor
• project
• task
• undertaking

More generic

• work

More specific

• adventure
• assignment
• baby
• breeze
• child's play
• cinch
• dangerous undertaking
• duck soup
• endeavor
• endeavour
• endurance contest
• enterprise
• escapade
• labor of love
• labour of love
• large order
• marathon
• no-brainer
• picnic
• piece of cake
• proposition
• pushover
• risky venture
• snap
• tall order
• venture
• walkover

Noun

the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913

Synonyms

• Department of Labor
• DoL
• Labor
• Labor Department

More generic

• executive department

Related

• OSHA
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Noun

a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages

Synonyms

• labor
• labour
• proletariat
• working class

More generic

• class
• social class
• socio-economic class
• stratum

More specific

• labor force
• labor pool
• lumpenproletariat
• organized labor

Related

• prole
• proletarian
• worker

Noun

a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries

Synonyms

• British Labour Party
• Labor
• Labour
• Labour Party

More generic

• labor party
• labour party

Related

• Labourite

Noun

an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement

Synonyms

• labor
• labor movement
• trade union movement

More generic

• reform movement

More specific

• I.W.W.
• IWW
• Industrial Workers of the World
• trade unionism
• unionism

Related

• brotherhood
• labor union
• trade union
• trades union
• union

Noun

concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child

Synonyms

• childbed
• confinement
• labor
• labour
• lying-in
• parturiency
• travail

More generic

• birth
• birthing
• giving birth
• parturition

More specific

• premature labor
• premature labour

Related

• asynclitism
• effacement
• obliquity
• uterine contraction

Related

• gestation
• maternity
• pregnancy

Verb

undergo the efforts of childbirth

Synonyms

• labor
• labour

More generic

• undergo

Related

• bear
• birth
• deliver
• give birth
• have

Verb

strive and make an effort to reach a goal

Synonyms

• drive
• labor
• labour
• push
• tug

More generic

• fight
• struggle

More specific

• reach
• strain
• strive

Related

• bear on
• push

Verb

work hard

Synonyms

• dig
• drudge
• fag
• grind
• labor
• labour
• moil
• toil
• travail

More generic

• do work
• work

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