Sep 6, 2011 · : the services performed by workers for wages as distinguished from those rendered by entrepreneurs for profits. Industry needs labor for production. The institute … lacks the ready supply …

LABOUR definition: 1. practical work, especially when it involves hard physical effort: 2. workers, especially people…. Learn more.

LABOUR definition: labor. See examples of labour used in a sentence.

Labor and labour are the same word. Labor is preferred in American English, whereas labour is standard in British English.

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Apr 23, 2026 · (uncountable) Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.

There are 18 meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun labour, five of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

1. productive activity, esp. for the sake of economic gain. 2. the body of persons engaged in such activity, esp. those working for wages. 3. this body of persons considered as a class (distinguished …

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 value …

labour Other forms: labours; laboured; labouring Definitions of labour noun productive work (especially physical work done for wages) synonyms: labor, toil