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English
Alternative spellings
- labour (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada)
Pronunciation
Noun
labor (countable and uncountable; plural labors)
- Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- ...so I set myself to enlarge my cave, and work farther into the earth; for it was a loose sandy rock, which yielded easily to the labour I bestowed on it...
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- (uncountable) Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labor movement, organised labor.
- The act of a mother giving birth.
- The time period during which a mother gives birth.
Usage notes
- Attributes: physical, mental, technical, organized, etc.
Related terms
- laboratory
- laborer
- laborious
- laborization
Verb
to labor (third-person singular simple present labors, present participle laboring, simple past and past participle labored)
- (US) spelling of labour; see British/commonwealth entry for definitions, etymology, pronunciation, translations, etc.
Derived terms
Anagrams
Latin
Noun
labor (genitive labōris); m, third declension
Inflection
| Number | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | labor | labōrēs |
| genitive | labōris | labōrum |
| dative | labōrī | labōribus |
| accusative | labōrem | labōrēs |
| ablative | labōre | labōribus |
| vocative | labor | labōrēs |
Derived terms
Verb
present active lābor, present infinitive lābī, perfect active lāpsus sum. (deponent)
Inflection
Third Conjugation Deponent| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | lābor | lāberis | lābitur | lābimur | lābiminī | lābuntur |
| future | lābar | lābēris | lābētur | lābēmur | lābēminī | lābentur | |
| imperfect | lābēbar | lābēbāris | lābēbātur | lābēbāmur | lābēbāminī | lābēbantur | |
| perfect | Use lāpsus m., lāpsa f., lāpsum n. followed by the present indicative of sum. | ||||||
| future perfect | Use lāpsus m., lāpsa f., lāpsum n. followed by the future indicative of sum. | ||||||
| pluperfect | Use lāpsus m., lāpsa f., lāpsum n. followed by the imperfect indicative of sum. | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | lābar | lābāris | lābātur | lābāmur | lābāminī | lābantur |
| imperfect | lāberer | lāberēris | lāberētur | lāberēmur | lāberēminī | lāberentur | |
| perfect | Use lāpsus m., lāpsa f., lāpsum n. followed by the present subjunctive of sum. | ||||||
| pluperfect | Use lāpsus m., lāpsa f., lāpsum n. followed by the imperfect subjunctive of sum. | ||||||
| imperatives | active | passive | |||||
| present (you) | future (you) | future (he/she) | present (you) | future (you) | future (he/she) | ||
| singular | lābere | lābitor | lābitor | — | — | — | |
| plural | lābiminī | — | lābuntor | — | — | — | |
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | lābī | lāpsus esse | lāpsūrus esse | — | — | — | |
| participles | lābēns (lābentis) | lāpsus -a, -um | lāpsūrus -ra, -rum | — | — | — | |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Spanish: laborear
Spanish
Noun
labor f. (plural labores)
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