labour /'leibә/

Meaning

English definition

• (n.) a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
• (n.) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
• (n.) a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key…

Chinese translation

• n. 劳动, 努力, 工作, 劳工, 分娩
• vi. 劳动, 努力, 苦干
• vt. 详细分析, 使厌烦

Word details

Part of speech

adjective

Pronunciation

/'leibә/

Syllables

2

Exam levels

Middle-school · Gaokao · CET-4 · CET-6

Frequency

Zipf 4.7 · Rare

Word forms

labouring, laboured, labours

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Related words

labor · laboratory · labourer · laborer · laborious · laboriously

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