labour

1. is a type of: class, social class, socio-economic class, stratum - people having the same social, economic, or educational status
   subtypes:

   • labor force, labor pool - the source of trained people from which workers can be hired
   • lumpenproletariat - (Marxism) the unorganized lower levels of the proletariat who are not interested in revolutionary advancement
   • organized labor - employees who are represented by a labor union
   member holonym: prole, proletarian, worker - a member of the working class (not necessarily employed)
   same as: labor, proletariat, working class
2. is a type of: birth, birthing, giving birth, parturition - the process of giving birth
   subtypes: premature labor, premature labour - labor beginning prior to the 37th week of gestation
   has:

   • uterine contraction - a rhythmic tightening in labor of the upper uterine musculature that contracts the size of the uterus and pushes the fetus toward the birth canal
   • effacement - shortening of the uterine cervix and thinning of its walls as it is dilated during labor
   • asynclitism, obliquity - the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle
   is a part of: gestation, maternity, pregnancy - the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus
   same as: childbed, confinement, labor, lying-in, parturiency, travail
3. is a type of: labor party, labour party - a left-of-center political party formed to represent the interest of ordinary working people
   member holonym: labourite - a member of the British Labour Party
   same as: british labour party, labor, labour party
4. is a type of: work - activity directed toward making or doing something
   subtypes:

   • roping - capturing cattle or horses with a lasso
   • corvee - unpaid labor (as for the maintenance of roads) required by a lord of his vassals in lieu of taxes
   • donkeywork, drudgery, grind, plodding - hard monotonous routine work
   • effort, elbow grease, exertion, sweat, travail - use of physical or mental energy; hard work
   • hunt, hunting - the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
   • hackwork - professional work done according to formula
   • haymaking - cutting grass and curing it to make hay
   • manual labor, manual labour - labor done with the hands
   • overwork, overworking - the act of working too much or too long
   • slavery - work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay
   same as: labor, toil

1. is a type of: do work, work - be employed
   same as: dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, moil, toil, travail
2. is a type of: fight, struggle - make a strenuous or labored effort
   subtypes: reach, strain, strive - to exert much effort or energy
   same as: drive, labor, push, tug
   verb group: bear on, push - press, drive, or impel (someone) to action or completion of an action
3. entail: bear, birth, deliver, give birth, have - cause to be born
   is a type of: undergo - pass through
   same as: labor

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