Labour: noun - Effort
of body or mind; physical or mental work; a job performed; pains taken to
further a matter or obtain a favour; childbirth, the time from the start of
regular uterine contractions until the placenta is expelled; physical work required
to execute a task; the contribution of a worker to production; workers, especially
manual workers, taken as a social class or a political force; the Labour Party.
‘Irish navvies supplied much of the labour needed to
construct such engineering marvels as the railway viaduct at Ribblehead.’
‘Catherine spent 27 hours in labour, puffing, panting and
occasionally cursing and screaming, before she gave birth to a wailing baby
boy.’
‘Labour and Conservative governments have more or less
alternated in power in the UK for the past century, often overturning the laws
made by the previous incumbents and working in open opposition instead of ruling
by consensus, as voting habits would suggest is the will of the people.’
Pic: The road down to Stainforth, North Yorkshire.
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