Sep 6, 2011 · travail is bookish for labor involving pain or suffering. toil implies prolonged and fatiguing labor. drudgery suggests dull and irksome labor. grind implies labor exhausting to …

If you continue to believe something that is not true, you are laboring under a delusion/misapprehension/misconception. He still labors under the delusion that other people …

Farming has been mechanized, reducing the need for labor. The older generation were bent double from decades of labor in the fields. Society is challenging the traditional sexual division …

Physical or mental exertion, especially when difficult or exhausting; work. See Synonyms at work. 2. A specific task or effort, especially a painful or arduous one: "Eating the bread was a labor I …

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.

Labor is used to refer to the workers of a country or industry, considered as a group. We have a problem of skilled labor. Employers want cheap labor and consumers want cheap houses. The …