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Adjective: laboured ley-burd Usage: Brit, Cdn (=labored)
- Lacking natural ease
"a laboured style of debating"; "a laboured style of debating" - labored [US], strained - Requiring or showing effort
"the subject made for laboured reading"; "laboured breathing" - heavy, labored [US] Verb: labour ley-bu(r) Usage: Brit, Cdn (=labor)
- Strive and make an effort to reach a goal
"She laboured for years to make a decent living"; "She laboured for years to make a decent living" - tug, labor [US], push, drive, sweat - Work hard
"Lexicographers labour all day long"; "Lexicographers labour all day long" - labor [US], toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil [N. Amer] - Undergo the efforts of childbirth
- labor [US]
See also: awkward, effortful, labourer [Brit, Cdn] Type of: do work, experience, fight, have, struggle, undergo, work Encyclopedia: Labour |