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1. Doing arduous or unpleasant work
   "the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton";
   - drudging, labouring [Brit, Cdn], toiling

1. Strive and make an effort to reach a goal
   "She labored for years to make a decent living";
   - tug, labour [Brit, Cdn], push, drive, sweat
    
2. Work hard
   "Lexicographers labor all day long";
   - labour [Brit, Cdn], toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil [N. Amer]
    
3. Undergo the efforts of childbirth
   - labour [Brit, Cdn]

See also: busy

Type of: do work, experience, fight, have, struggle, undergo, work

Encyclopedia: Laboring