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Labour Laboured Labouring I Difficulty Man Point Twenty Five

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If you l_____ to do something, you do it with difficulty.If you labour to do something, you do it with difficulty.
For twenty-five years now he has laboured to build a religious community.
...a young man who's labouring under all kinds of other difficulties.
word labour
full-definition
noun
Labour is very hard work, usually physical work.
...the labour of seeding, planting and harvesting.
The chef at the barbecue looked up from his labours; he was sweating.
Labour is used to refer to the workers of a country or industry, considered as a group.
Latin America lacked skilled labour.
...the struggle between capital and labour.
They were cheap labour.
The work done by a group of workers or by a particular worker is referred to as their labour .
Every man should receive a fair price for the product of his labour.
The unemployed cannot withdraw their labour–they have no power.
In Britain, people use Labour to refer to the Labour Party .
They all vote Labour.
Labour is the last stage of pregnancy, in which the baby is gradually pushed out of the womb by the mother .
I thought the pains meant I was going into labour.
Some women prefer to move about during labour.
verb
Someone who labours works hard using their hands .
...peasants labouring in the fields.
Her husband laboured at the plant for 17 years.
If you labour to do something, you do it with difficulty.
For twenty-five years now he has laboured to build a religious community.
...a young man who's labouring under all kinds of other difficulties.
If you labour under a delusion or misapprehension, you continue to believe something which is not true .
She laboured under the illusion that I knew what I was doing.
You seem to be labouring under considerable misapprehensions.
If you labour a point or an argument, you keep making the same point or saying the same thing, although it is unnecessary .
I don't want to labour the point but there it is.
adjective
A Labour politician or voter is a member of a Labour Party or votes for a Labour Party.
...a Labour MP.
Millions of Labour voters went unrepresented.
inflections labourslabouringlaboured
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