labor

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

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noun a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
noun productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
noun concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child

"Then you are used to agricultural labor?" — Only an Irish Boy; Or, Andy Burke's Fortunes, Horatio, Jr. Alger
To the hiring out of convict labor. — A School History of the United States, John Bach McMaster
60 Rest after Labor Sorrow at Parting (XXVII.) — Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem, Unknown

labour, working class, proletariat

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