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labor
Synonyms and Antonyms of labor
- one of the labors of Hercules in classical mythology was to clean out the stables of King Augeas
- a superhuman amount of labor must have gone into designing and building the pyramids of Egypt
effort, elbow grease, exertion, expenditure, pains, sweat, trouble, while, work
- a political dissident forced to do six months of hard labor in the salt mines as punishment
- the mother's labor lasted for six hours
- a small, personal film that was clearly a labor of love for the director and actors
article, commodity, entry, object
goods, line, merchandise, wares
aftereffect, aftermath, conclusion, consequence, corollary, development, effect, issue, outcome, result, resultant, sequel, sequence, upshot
by-product, derivative, offshoot, offspring, outgrowth, residual, side effect (also side reaction), spin-off
Synonym Discussion of labor
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- too tired to do any work
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- farmers demanding fair compensation for their labor
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- years of travail were lost when the house burned
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- his lot would be years of back-breaking toil
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- an editorial job with a good deal of drudgery
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- the grind of the assembly line
labor
Synonyms and Antonyms of labor
- the young lawyer labored most of the weekend over the difficult legal brief
break, ease (up), let up, slacken
bum, chill, dally, dillydally, footle, goldbrick, goof (off), hack (around), hang (around or out), idle, laze, loaf, lounge, shirk, slack (off), veg out
bask, loll, relax, repose, rest, unwind
dabble, doodle, fool around, fribble, goof (around), hang, hang about [British], mess around, monkey (around), play, potter (around), putter (around), trifle
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