labor

1. → see: labour

1. Each family farms individually and reaps the benefit of its labor
   各家经营各自的农场，收获各自的劳动成果。
2. The company says it is in full compliance with US labor laws
   这家公司说自己严格遵守美国的各项劳工法。
3. We've got stable labor, decreasing interest rates, low oil prices.
   我们拥有稳定的劳力、不断降低的利率以及低廉的石油价格。
4. Management and labor are dickering over pay, benefits and working conditions
   劳资双方在薪水、福利和工作条件的问题上争执不下。
5. The current division of labor between workers and management will alter.
   当前工人与管理部门的分工将会改变。
6. They also hammered away at Labor's plans to raise taxes.
   他们还不断谈到工党的增税计划。
7. The British Labor Party concludes its annual conference today in Brighton.
   英国工党的年度会议今天在布赖顿闭幕。
8. We have to balance good labor relations against the need to cut costs.
   我们要在搞好劳资关系与削减开支之间保持平衡。
9. We observe a striking shift away from a labor theory among all mainline economists
   我们发现在主流经济学家中间出现了一种偏离劳动理论的显著变化。
10. This principle of collective bargaining has been a mainstay in labor relations in this country.
    这一集体谈判原则已经成为该国劳动关系的重要基础。
11. It was difficult to measure the precise impact of the labor action.
    此次罢工影响几何，难以作出准确的评估。
12. Each box requires no more than a few hours of labor to build
    做成一个盒子不超过几个小时。
13. Actors go through the motions of different types of labor.
    演员们假装从事不同的劳动。
14. Next to the expense of cashiers, pricing items is one of the costliest labor costs of grocery retailers.
    对食品杂货零售商来说，给货物贴价签也是劳动力成本中最为昂贵的一个部分，仅次于雇佣收银员的费用。
15. Labor economist Harley Shaekin argues the cost needs to be viewed in perspective
    工党经济学家哈利·谢金认为要客观看待成本。
16. Land, labor and capital are all productive of wealth.
    土地、劳动和资本都能创造财富。
17. The government revoked her husband's license to operate migrant labor crews.
    政府撤销了她丈夫管理外来打工人群的许可证。
18. The trading day is shortened in observance of the Labor Day holiday
    因庆祝劳工节，这个交易日交易时间缩短了。
19. The Labor government of Western Australia has an election due next spring
    西澳大利亚工党政府明年春天要举行选举。
20. The Labor Department figures underscore the shaky state of the economic recovery
    劳工部的数据进一步印证了经济复苏状况的不稳定。
21. The labor party went out in1980.
    工党于1980年下野。
22. Labor productivity is calculated by added value at current price.
    社会劳动生产率按现价增加值计算。
23. The signs of labor are contractions and rupture of membranes.
    分娩的症状是宫缩和羊膜破裂。
24. The international labor office publishes the following statistics.
    国际劳工部公布了下面的统计。
25. He earns a living by casual labor.
    他靠做临时工为生。
26. No matter how we define him, he cannot in anyway be related to as a labor people.
    讲来讲去就是和劳动人民四个字沾不到边。
27. The invention of all those machines by which labour is so much facilitated and abridged, seems to have been originally owing to the division of labor.
    简化劳动和节省劳动的那些机械的发明，看来也是起因于分工。
28. He is a consultant on labor affairs to the mayor.
    他是市长的一个劳工顾问。
29. Most manual labor in the past has been replaced by modern machines.
    昔日大部分手工劳动已由现代化的机器所代替。
30. This can reduce the duplication of investment, time, and labor.
    这能减少资金投入、时间和劳动的重复。

noun

1. productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
   1. his labor did not require a great deal of skill

   Synonym:    labourtoil

2. any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
   1. he prepared for great undertakings

   Synonym:    undertakingprojecttask

3. a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
   1. there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field

   Synonym:    labourworking classproletariat

4. an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement

   Synonym:    labor movementtrade union movement

5. concluding state of pregnancy
   1. she was in labor for six hours

   Synonym:    parturiencylabourconfinementlying-intravailchildbed

verb

1. undergo the efforts of childbirth

   Synonym:    labour

2. strive and make an effort to reach a goal
   1. She tugged for years to make a decent living
   2. We have to push a little to make the deadline!
   3. She is driving away at her doctoral thesis

   Synonym:    tuglabourpushdrive

3. work hard
   1. She was digging away at her math homework
   2. Lexicographers drudge all day long

   Synonym:    labourtoilfagtravailgrinddrudgedigmoil