| slovo | definícia |
labour
(mass) | labour
- pracovná sila, námaha, práca |
labour
(encz) | labour,námaha n: Ritchie |
labour
(encz) | labour,porod n: Marek Turnovec |
labour
(encz) | labour,práce n: Ritchie |
labour
(encz) | labour,pracovní síla Mgr. Dita Gálová |
labour
(gcide) | Labor \La"bor\ (l[=a]"b[~e]r), n. [OE. labour, OF. labour,
laber, labur, F. labeur, L. labor; cf. Gr. lamba`nein to
take, Skr. labh to get, seize.] [Written also labour.]
1. Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when
fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from
sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort directed to some
useful end, as agriculture, manufactures, and like;
servile toil; exertion; work.
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God hath set
Labor and rest, as day and night, to men
Successive. --Milton.
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2. Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of
compiling a history.
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3. That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that
which demands effort.
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Being a labor of so great a difficulty, the exact
performance thereof we may rather wish than look
for. --Hooker.
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4. Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.
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The queen's in labor,
They say, in great extremity; and feared
She'll with the labor end. --Shak.
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5. Any pang or distress. --Shak.
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6. (Naut.) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results
in the straining of timbers and rigging.
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7. [Sp.] A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to
an area of 1771/7 acres. --Bartlett.
8. (Mining.) A stope or set of stopes. [Sp. Amer.]
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Syn: Work; toil; drudgery; task; exertion; effort; industry;
painstaking. See Toll.
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labour
(gcide) | Labor \La"bor\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Labored; p. pr. & vb. n.
Laboring.] [OE. labouren, F. labourer, L. laborare. See
Labor, n.] [Written also labour.]
1. To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with
painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to
work; to toil.
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Adam, well may we labor still to dress
This garden. --Milton.
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2. To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any
design; to strive; to take pains.
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3. To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's
work under conditions which make it especially hard,
wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under
a burden; to be burdened; -- often with under, and
formerly with of.
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The stone that labors up the hill. --Granville.
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The line too labors, and the words move slow.
--Pope.
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To cure the disorder under which he labored. --Sir
W. Scott.
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Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest. --Matt. xi. 28
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4. To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be
in labor.
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5. (Naut.) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent
sea. --Totten.
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labour
(gcide) | labour \la"bour\, n.
Same as labor; -- British spelling. [Chiefly Brit.]
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labour
(wn) | labour
n 1: a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work
for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this
field" [syn: labor, labour, working class,
proletariat]
2: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions
to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
[syn: parturiency, labor, labour, confinement,
lying-in, travail, childbed]
3: a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900;
characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and
formerly the socialization of key industries [syn: {British
Labour Party}, Labour Party, Labour, Labor]
4: productive work (especially physical work done for wages);
"his labor did not require a great deal of skill" [syn:
labor, labour, toil]
v 1: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework";
"Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: labor,
labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge,
dig, moil]
2: strive and make an effort to reach a goal; "She tugged for
years to make a decent living"; "We have to push a little to
make the deadline!"; "She is driving away at her doctoral
thesis" [syn: tug, labor, labour, push, drive]
3: undergo the efforts of childbirth [syn: labor, labour] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
laboured
(mass) | laboured
- obtiažny |
labourer
(mass) | labourer
- robotník |
average product of labour
(encz) | average product of labour,průměrná produktivita práce [ekon.] RNDr.
Pavel Piskač |
belabour
(encz) | belabour,rozvádět v: omílat, "rozpitvávat" cryptonomiconbelabour,seřezat např. bičem Zdeněk Brož |
casual labourer
(encz) | casual labourer,příležitostný dělník |
cost of labour
(encz) | cost of labour,náklady práce Mgr. Dita Gálová |
day labourer
(encz) | day labourer, n: |
division of labour
(encz) | division of labour,dělba práce Mgr. Dita Gálová |
international labour office
(encz) | International Labour Office, |
international labour organisation
(encz) | International Labour Organisation, |
international labour organization /ilo/
(encz) | International Labour Organization /ILO/,Mezinárodní organizace
práce [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
labour costs
(encz) | labour costs,mzdové náklady Mgr. Dita Gálová |
labour force
(encz) | labour force,pracovní síla Mgr. Dita Gálová |
labour law
(encz) | labour law,pracovní právo [práv.] Ritchie |
labour market
(encz) | labour market,trh práce Mgr. Dita Gálová |
labour of love
(encz) | labour of love, n: |
labour pains
(encz) | labour pains, n: |
labour party
(encz) | Labour Party,Dělnická strana [polit.] [brit.] Ritchie |
labour-intensive
(encz) | labour-intensive,pracný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
laboured
(encz) | laboured,obtížný adj: Zdeněk Brožlaboured,těžkopádný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
labourer
(encz) | labourer,dělník n: Zdeněk Brož |
labourers
(encz) | labourers,dělníci n: pl. Zdeněk Brožlabourers,pomocníci n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
labouring
(encz) | labouring,usilování n: Zdeněk Brožlabouring,usilující adj: Zdeněk Brož |
labourite
(encz) | Labourite, |
laboursaving
(encz) | laboursaving, adj: |
manual labour
(encz) | manual labour, n: |
marginal revenue product of labour
(encz) | marginal revenue product of labour,mezní příjmový produkt
práce [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
premature labour
(encz) | premature labour, n: |
wage labour
(encz) | wage labour,námezdní práce |
labourista
(czen) | labourista,labn: [polit.] Petr Prášek |
arduous backbreaking back-breaking grueling gruelling hard heavy laborious labourious punishing slavish strenuous toilsome
(gcide) | effortful \effortful\ adj.
1. requiring great physical effort. Opposite of effortless.
[Narrower terms: {arduous, backbreaking, back-breaking,
grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, labourious,
punishing, slavish, strenuous, toilsome}; {exhausting,
tiring, wearing, wearying}] Also See: difficult, hard.
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laboured
(gcide) | laboured \laboured\ adj.
1. same as labored; -- British spelling [Chiefly British]
Syn: graceless, labored, strained.
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labourer
(gcide) | labourer \labourer\ n.
a laborer; someone who works with their hands. [Chiefly
Brit.]
Syn: laborer, manual laborer.
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labourious
(gcide) | labourious \labourious\ adj.
1. characterized by toilsome effort; same as laborious; --
British spelling. [Chiefly Brit.]
Syn: arduous, backbreaking, back-breaking, grueling,
gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, punishing, slavish,
strenuous, toilsome.
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Labourite
(gcide) | Labourite \Labourite\ n.
a member of the British Labour Party.
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manual labour
(gcide) | manual labor \manual labor\, manual labour \manual labour\n.
Labor done with the hands.
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agricultural labourer
(wn) | agricultural labourer
n 1: a person who tills the soil for a living [syn:
agricultural laborer, agricultural labourer] |
belabour
(wn) | belabour
v 1: to work at or to absurd length; "belabor the obvious" [syn:
belabor, belabour]
2: beat soundly [syn: belabour, belabor]
3: attack verbally with harsh criticism; "She was belabored by
her fellow students" [syn: belabor, belabour] |
british labour party
(wn) | British Labour Party
n 1: a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900;
characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and
formerly the socialization of key industries [syn: {British
Labour Party}, Labour Party, Labour, Labor] |
day labourer
(wn) | day labourer
n 1: a laborer who works by the day; for daily wages [syn: {day
laborer}, day labourer] |
international labour organization
(wn) | International Labour Organization
n 1: the United Nations agency concerned with the interests of
labor [syn: International Labor Organization,
International Labour Organization, ILO] |
labour camp
(wn) | labour camp
n 1: a penal institution for political prisoners who are used as
forced labor [syn: labor camp, labour camp] |
labour of love
(wn) | labour of love
n 1: productive work performed voluntarily without material
reward or compensation [syn: labor of love, {labour of
love}] |
labour pains
(wn) | labour pains
n 1: a regularly recurrent spasm of pain that is characteristic
of childbirth [syn: birth pangs, labor pains, {labour
pains}] |
labour party
(wn) | Labour Party
n 1: a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900;
characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and
formerly the socialization of key industries [syn: {British
Labour Party}, Labour Party, Labour, Labor]
2: a left-of-center political party formed to represent the
interest of ordinary working people [syn: labor party,
labour party] |
labour-intensive
(wn) | labour-intensive
adj 1: requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much
capital; "cottage industries are labor intensive" [syn:
labor-intensive, labour-intensive] |
laboured
(wn) | laboured
adj 1: lacking natural ease; "a labored style of debating" [syn:
labored, laboured, strained]
2: requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject
made for labored reading" [syn: heavy, labored,
laboured] |
labourer
(wn) | labourer
n 1: someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in
manual labor [syn: laborer, manual laborer, labourer,
jack] |
labouring
(wn) | labouring
adj 1: doing arduous or unpleasant work; "drudging peasants";
"the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton";
"toiling coal miners in the black deeps" [syn:
drudging, laboring, labouring, toiling] |
labourite
(wn) | Labourite
n 1: a member of the British Labour Party |
laboursaving
(wn) | laboursaving
adj 1: designed to replace or conserve human and especially
manual labor; "laborsaving devices like washing machines"
[syn: laborsaving, laboursaving] |
manual labour
(wn) | manual labour
n 1: labor done with the hands [syn: manual labor, {manual
labour}] |
premature labour
(wn) | premature labour
n 1: labor beginning prior to the 37th week of gestation [syn:
premature labor, premature labour] |
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