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(n)
The social class of those who perform physical work for a living, as opposed to the professional or middle class, the upper class, or others.
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A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
(also attributively) A person who works in a low servile job.
The act of confining or the state of being confined.
A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
Any of a number of political parties of various nationalities, often opposed to conservative parties.
Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.
An attempt to persuade someone into a particular course of action.
A sudden powerful pull.
That which is undertaken; any business, work, or project which a person engages in, or attempts to perform; an enterprise.
An effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
(literary) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.
Labour, work, especially of a grueling nature.
Hard work.
The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
Parturition
(uncountable) The final stage of pregnancy; confinement.
The final stages of pregnancy; accouchement.
the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the united states; created in 1913
an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action especially via labor unions (especially the leaders of this movement)
(US, Canada, vulgar, usually offensive, sometimes endearing) A homosexual man, especially (usually derogatory) an effeminate or unusual one.
The total population of a country or region that is employed or employable.
The total number of all available workers; the workforce.
The place where someone works.
The occupation or work for which one is used, and often paid.
(business) An enterprise producing tangible goods or providing certain services to industrial companies.
One who works: a person who performs labor for a living; traditionally, especially, manual labor.
(adj)
Of, belonging, or relating to an occupation (in any sense).
(uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
(uncountable) Employment.
A person who belongs to a profession.
(uncountable) The buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
A task.
(by extension) A group dedicated to a particular cause or interest.
(countable, uncountable) That which one is morally or legally obligated to do.
(usually in the plural) Operation; action.
(uncountable) The act or process of operating (verb): agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
(law) A person or group of people constituting one side in a legal proceeding, such as in a legal action or a contract.
(uncountable) Synonym of operation (in the uncountable sense).
The effort of performing or doing something.
Ability to influence; strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.
Alternative spelling of man-made. [Created by people, as opposed to occurring in nature; artificial or synthetic.]
The quality of something made by an artisan or craftsman.
Man-made; made by humans; of artifice.
The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.
The act of one who labours; toil; work done.
(slang) The penis.
(countable) An instance of a certain standardized college admissions test in the United States, originally called the American College Test.
Kurdistan Workers' Party.
The act of giving birth; childbirth.
The fact or action of giving birth to a child, as the culmination of pregnancy.
The part of the forelimb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals.
A surname.
A person who provides labor to a company or another person.
(countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
One who uses bodily strength rather than intellect to earn a wage, usually hourly.
A man who labours for wages.
(N)
a word of the German language which means "work" or "labour".
An expenditure of physical or mental effort.
(countable, business, economics) Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole. Trade.
An act of being of assistance to someone.
The act of producing, making or creating something.
The quality of being a craftsman.
Exhausting, menial, and tedious work.
A company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor.
A handmade object; a handicraft.
A sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal; assiduous or persistent activity.
(v)
(intransitive) To walk slowly or doggedly, encountering resistance.
Not of pertaining to labor.
The agricultural work done on a farm.
one's total income for a time period
(often attributive) The act of giving birth.
Prior to the labor of childbirth.
The marshalling and organizing of troops and national resources in preparation for war, bringing them to a state of readiness for an action.
(medicine) An artificial rupture of membranes to induce or accelerate labour.
The act or process of making something flexible.
Without a wage.
(stylized as FRUiTS) a Japanese monthly street fashion magazine founded in 1997 by photographer Shoichi Aoki.
The improper use of something for selfish purposes.
(politics) The act of forming a labor union.
A portion of a contracted project that is contracted out in turn.