Labour
English Vietnamese dictionary
labour /'leibə/ (labor) /'leibə/
- danh từ
- lao động
- manual labour: lao động chân tay
- công việc, công việc nặng nhọc
- labour of great difficulty: một công việc rất khó khăn
- the labours of Hercules; Herculian labours: những công việc đòi hỏi phải có sức khoẻ phi thường
- tầng lớp lao động, nhân công
- labour and capital: lao động và tư bản; thợ và chủ
- shortage of labour: tình trạng thiếu nhân công
- đau đẻ
- a woman in labour: người đàn bà đau đẻ
- lost labour
- những cố gắng vô ích, những nỗ lực uổng công
- lao động
- nội động từ
- gắng công, nỗ lực, dốc sức
- to labour for the happiness of mankind: nỗ lực vì hạnh phúc của loài người
- to labour at a task: dốc sức hoàn thành nhiệm vụ
- di chuyển chậm chạp, di chuyển khó khăn; lắc lư tròng trành trên biển động
- (+ under) bị giày vò, quằn quại, chịu đau đớn; là nạn nhân của
- to labour under a disease: bị bệnh tật giày vò
- to labour under a delusion: bị một ảo tưởng ám ảnh
- đau khổ
- gắng công, nỗ lực, dốc sức
- ngoại động từ
- dày công trau dồi; chuẩn bị kỹ lưỡng; bàn bạc chi tiết
- to labour a point: bàn bạc chi tiết một vấn đề
- dày công trau dồi; chuẩn bị kỹ lưỡng; bàn bạc chi tiết
Advanced English dictionary
(also Labour)
+ noun
[sing.+sing./pl. v.] one of the main British political parties, on the political left, that has traditionally represented the interests of working people: the Labour Party leader
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 toil, (hard) work, travail, exertion, effort, laboriousness, strain, drudgery, pains, industry, slavery, donkey-work, Colloq sweat, grind, elbow-grease, Brit swot:
They know the labour involved in building a road.
2 employees, workers, wage-earners, labourers:
A meeting between labour and management is scheduled for today.
3 effort, task, job, chore, undertaking:
Raising funds for the museum was a labour of love.
4 travail, childbirth, parturition, labour pains, contractions, delivery:
She went into labour at midnight, and the twins were born just after four.
v.
5 work, toil, travail, drudge, strain, strive, struggle, slave, Colloq sweat, grind, Brit peg away (at), swot:
We laboured hard to get where we are today.
6 dwell on, overdo, overemphasize, harp on, overstress, strain, Colloq belabour:
I heard you the first time, so don't labour the point.
7 labour under. be burdened or troubled or distressed by, be deluded or deceived by, be disadvantaged by, suffer, endure:
He is labouring under a misapprehension. She labours under the impression that she will not be affected by a lack of education.
Collocation dictionary
1 work
ADJ.
manual, physical | forced, hard
He was sentenced to four years hard labour for his crime.
VERB + LABOUR
withdraw
The miners are threatening to withdraw their labour.
LABOUR + NOUN
market
an increasingly competitive labour market
2 workers
ADJ.
cheap | casual | skilled, unskilled | child, migrant, slave
It is thought that Stonehenge was built using slave labour.
LABOUR + NOUN
force
the size of the labour force
| cost/costs | relations
3 giving birth
ADJ.
difficult, easy | long, short
The baby was born after a long labour.
VERB + LABOUR
go into
She went into labour two weeks early.
| induce
Labour was induced when the baby was ten days overdue.
LABOUR + NOUN
room, ward | pains
PREP.
in ~
She was in labour for ten hours.
Concise English dictionary
labours|laboured|labouring'leɪbə(r)
noun
+a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
+concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child
+a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and the socialization of key industries
+productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
verb
+work hard
+strive and make an effort to reach a goal
+undergo the efforts of childbirth
