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# labor

«labor» in Mova's school dictionary: **Noun: hard work, especially physical work** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (labors); verb (labors, labored, laboring) (American spelling of «labour»)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Noun: hard work, especially physical work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/labor/#m1)

2) Verb: to work hard at a task. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/labor/#m2)

3) Noun: workers, the people who do the work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/labor/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, work done with effort, often for no gain; in lessons, the work needed to finish a job

### examples

- We put our labor into the garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/labor/#x1)
- All our labor was lost. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/labor/#x2)
- The mice ran about and labored at the hole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/labor/#x3)
- The farm needs more labor at harvest time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/labor/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths; «labor» names the work done, not a count of things, so it changes no number

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «labor» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/labor/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.