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1: the source of trained people from which workers can be hired [syn: {labor pool}]

1: a leader of a labor movement

1: the market in which workers compete for jobs and employers compete for workers

1: an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action especially via labor unions (especially the leaders of this movement) [syn: {trade union movement}, {labor}]

1: productive work performed voluntarily without material reward or compensation [syn: {labour of love}]

1: someone who enlists workers to join a union [syn: {organizer}, {organiser}]

1: pain and discomfort associated with contractions of the uterus during labor

1: a regularly recurrent spasm of pain that is characteristic of childbirth [syn: {birth pangs}, {labour pains}]

1: a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and the socialization of key industries [syn: {Labour Party}, {Labour}, {Labor}]

1: the source of trained people from which workers can be hired [syn: {labor force}]

1: resources of available manpower

1: the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Labor; "the first Labor Secretary was William B. Wilson who was appointed by President Wilson" [syn: {Secretary of Labor}] 2: the positio...

1: an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job" [syn: {union}, {trade union}, {trades union}, {brotherhood}]

1: requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital; "cottage industries are labor intensive" [syn: {labour-intensive}]

1: a workplace for the conduct of scientific research [syn: {lab}, {research lab}, {research laboratory}, {science lab}, {science laboratory}] 2: a region resembling a laboratory inasmuch as it offers...

1: a workbench in a laboratory [syn: {lab bench}]

1: a light coat worn to protect clothing from substances used while working in a laboratory [syn: {lab coat}]

1: lacking natural ease; "a labored style of debating" [syn: {laboured}, {strained}] 2: requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading" [syn: {heavy}, {laboured}...

1: someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor [syn: {manual laborer}, {labourer}, {jack}]

1: doing arduous or unpleasant work; "drudging peasants"; "the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton"; "toiling coal miners in the black deeps" [syn: {drudging}, {labouring}, {toiling}]

1: characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy g...

1: in a laborious manner; "their lives were spent in committee making decisions for others to execute on the basis of data laboriously gathered for them"

1: the quality of requiring extended effort [syn: {operoseness}, {toilsomeness}]

1: designed to replace or conserve human and especially manual labor; "laborsaving devices like washing machines" [syn: {laboursaving}]

1: a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field" [syn: {labor}, {working class}, {proletariat}] 2: concluding state of pre...

1: productive work performed voluntarily without material reward or compensation [syn: {labor of love}]

1: a regularly recurrent spasm of pain that is characteristic of childbirth [syn: {birth pangs}, {labor pains}]

1: a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and the socialization of key industries [syn: {Labour}, {Labor Party}, {Labor}]

1: requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital; "cottage industries are labor intensive" [syn: {labor-intensive}]

1: lacking natural ease; "a labored style of debating" [syn: {labored}, {strained}] 2: requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading" [syn: {heavy}, {labored}]

1: someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor [syn: {laborer}, {manual laborer}, {jack}]

1: doing arduous or unpleasant work; "drudging peasants"; "the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton"; "toiling coal miners in the black deeps" [syn: {drudging}, {laboring}, {toiling}]

1: a member of the British Labour Party

1: designed to replace or conserve human and especially manual labor; "laborsaving devices like washing machines" [syn: {laborsaving}]

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1: the mainland part of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador in the eastern part of the large Labrador-Ungava Peninsula in northeastern Canada

1: a peninsular region of eastern Canada between Hudson Bay and the Labrador Sea; contains most of Quebec and the mainland part of Newfoundland and Labrador [syn: {Labrador-Ungava Peninsula}]

1: breed originally from Labrador having a short black or golden-brown coat

1: an arm of the northern Atlantic between Labrador and southern Greenland

1: evergreen shrub of eastern North America having white or creamy bell-shaped flowers and dark green hairy leaves used for tea during American Revolution [syn: {crystal tea}, {Ledum groenlandicum}]

1: a peninsular region of eastern Canada between Hudson Bay and the Labrador Sea; contains most of Quebec and the mainland part of Newfoundland and Labrador [syn: {Labrador Peninsula}]

1: wrasses [syn: {family Labridae}]

1: a large connective tissue cell that contains histamine and heparin and serotonin which are released in allergic reactions or in response to injury or inflammation [syn: {mast cell}, {mastocyte}]

1: French architect who was among the first to use metal construction successfully (1801-1875) [syn: {Henri Labrouste}]

1: flowering shrubs or trees having bright yellow flowers; all parts of the plant are poisonous [syn: {genus Laburnum}]

1: an ornamental shrub or tree of the genus Laburnum [syn: {Scotch laburnum}, {Alpine golden chain}]

1: an ornamental shrub or tree of the genus Laburnum; often cultivated for Easter decorations [syn: {common laburnum}, {golden chain}, {golden rain}]

1: complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost [syn: {maze}] 2: a complex system of interconnecting cavities; concerned with hearing and equilibrium [syn: {inner ear}, {internal...

1: a vast labyrinth built in Crete by Daedalus at the command of Minos in order to contain the Minotaur

1: resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity; "a labyrinthine network of tortuous footpaths" [syn: {labyrinthine}, {mazy}]

1: relating to or affecting or originating in the inner ear; "labyrinthine deafness" 2: resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity; "a labyrinthine network of tortuous footpaths" [syn: {labyrinthian...

1: a branch of the basilar artery that supplies the labyrinth [syn: {artery of the labyrinth}, {internal auditory artery}]

1: a sensory system located in structures of the inner ear that registers the orientation of the head [syn: {equilibrium}, {vestibular sense}, {sense of balance}, {sense of equilibrium}]

1: veins that drain the inner ear [syn: {internal auditory vein}]

1: inflammation of the inner ear; can cause vertigo and vomiting [syn: {otitis interna}]

1: an amphibian of the superorder Labyrinthodontia

1: extinct amphibians typically resembling heavy-bodied salamanders or crocodiles and having a solid flattened skull and conical teeth; Devonian through Triassic [syn: {Labyrinthodontia}, {superorder ...

1: extinct amphibians typically resembling heavy-bodied salamanders or crocodiles and having a solid flattened skull and conical teeth; Devonian through Triassic [syn: {superorder Labyrinthodontia}, {...

1: resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects; used in e.g. varnishes and sealing wax

1: scarlet dye like cochineal; extracted with alkali from stick lac