labouring
/'leibəriɳ/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Engaged in hard physical work: The word "labouring" describes someone who is performing physically demanding or strenuous work.
- Working with effort and toil: It can also describe the state of working in a manner that requires great exertion or effort.
Usage
- As an adjective: "Labouring" is used to modify a noun, describing the person or group engaged in hard work.
- The labouring workers finally took a break.
- She heard the heavy breathing of the labouring horse.
Examples
- Adjective:
- The labouring crew finished the construction ahead of schedule.
- His labouring heart was a concern for the doctor.
- The book provides a history of the labouring classes in the 19th century.
Advanced Usage
- "The labouring oar": This is an idiomatic expression referring to the hardest part of a task or the greatest share of the work.
- In this project, our department will pull the labouring oar.
Variants and Related Words
- Labour (verb): To work hard; to make a great effort.
- They laboured all day in the fields.
- Labourer (noun): A person who does hard physical work, especially outdoors.
- He worked as a labourer on a building site.
- Laborious (adjective): Requiring considerable time and effort.
- Cleaning the entire house was a laborious task.
Synonyms
- Toiling: Working extremely hard or incessantly.
- Drudging: Doing hard, menial, or dull work.
- Working: Engaged in physical or mental activity to achieve a purpose.
Antonyms
- Idle: Avoiding work; lazy.
- Resting: Ceasing work or movement to relax or recover strength.
Related Phrases
- Hard labour: Punitive physical work, often as a judicial sentence.
- The convict was sentenced to five years of hard labour.
- Manual labour: Work done using the hands or physical strength.
- The job involves a great deal of manual labour.
Adjective
- doing arduous or unpleasant work
- drudging peasants
- the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton
- toiling coal miners in the black deeps