Labor
noun
- 1.
- (physical or mental exertion, work, a specific task, a Herculean task, the pains or contractions of the uterus at childbirth, workers, working people distinguished from management or considered as a political force) fruits of labor ការងារ, ពលកម្ម, labor and management កម្មករ, កម្លាំងពលកម្ម, in labor ឈឺពោះឆ្លងទន្លេ
Example: workers are paid for their labor. - 2.
- (វេជ្ជសាស្ត្រ) ការឆ្លងទន្លេ, ការសំរាលកូន
verb — past tense: labored ; past participle: labored ; present participle: laboring ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) Labor a point បញ្ជាក់ម្ដងហើយម្ដងទៀត
- 2.
- (INTRANSITIVE) (To exert oneself, to work hard, to have to make a great effort, to operate or progress only with difficulty) workmen labor ធ្វើការ
Example: They labored night and day on the new bridge, Makara labored over the composition, the labors of the ants, In the Saudi Arabia Tabor enjoys high wages, The little train labored up the steep hill.labor under an illusion ជឿខុស, ships labor in a storm ខំពុះពារទាំងលំបាក
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort directed to some useful end, as agriculture, manufactures, and like; servile toil; exertion; work.
- 2.
- Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history.
- 3.
- That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
- 4.
- Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.
- 5.
- Any pang or distress.
- 6.
- The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
- 7.
- A measure of land in Mexico and Texas.
- 8.
- A store or set of stopes.
verb — past tense: labored ; past participle: labored ; present participle: laboring ;
- 1.
- To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil.
- 2.
- To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.
- 3.
- To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard, wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden; to be burdened; -- often with under, and formerly with of.
- 4.
- To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth.
- 5.
- To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
- 6.
- (TRANSITIVE) To work at; to work; to till; to cultivate by toil.
- 7.
- (TRANSITIVE) To form or fabricate with toil, exertion, or care.
- 8.
- (TRANSITIVE) To prosecute, or perfect, with effort; as, to labor a point or argument.
- 1.
- To belabor, to beat