- labour v
- "It's hard work arresting that girl!" said Tom, laboring under a misapprehension.
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labour v
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labour — [ labur ] n. m. • 1180; de labourer 1 ♦ Travail de labourage, façon donnée à une terre pour la retourner et l ameublir. ⇒ labourage. Labour à bras (à la bêche, à la houe). Labour à la charrue, au tracteur. Labours superficiels ou légers. Labours… … Encyclopédie Universelle
labour — la‧bour [ˈleɪbə ǁ ər] , labor noun [uncountable] 1. work involving a lot of physical or mental effort: • The garage charges £65 an hour for labour. • those involved in repetitive, unskilled manual labour (= work that involves using your … Financial and business terms
labour — (US & Austral. labor) ► NOUN 1) work, especially hard physical work. 2) workers collectively. 3) (Labour) the Labour Party. 4) the process of childbirth. ► VERB 1) work hard … English terms dictionary
labour — Labour, ou labourage, Cultus agrorum, Agricultura, Aratio, Agricolatio. Qui est en labour, Ager cultus et nitidus. B. Labour de terre, Molitio agrorum. Entretenir le labour, Tenere studia agri colendi. Qui se cognoist au labour, Prudens… … Thresor de la langue françoyse
labour — Labour. s. m. La façon qu on donne aux terres en les labourant. Il faut donner deux labours à cette terre. on luy a donné tant pour son labour. il luy faut payer ses labours & semences. On appelle, Chevaux de labour, Les chevaux dont on se sert… … Dictionnaire de l'Académie française
labour — British English spelling of LABOR (Cf. labor) (q.v.); for spelling, see OR (Cf. or). As short for the British Labour Party it is from 1906 … Etymology dictionary
labour — la bour, n. Same as {labor}; British spelling. [Chiefly Brit.] [PJC] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Labour — (spr. Labuhr), ehemalige Landschaft im südwestlichen Frankreich, Theil der Gascogne; Hauptstadt war Bayonne … Pierer's Universal-Lexikon
Labour — er det engelske arbejderparti … Danske encyklopædi
labour — is the standard spelling in BrE, whereas labor is the standard form in AmE … Modern English usage
labour — [lā′bər] n., vi., vt. Brit. sp. of LABOR … English World dictionary
