Labour

Labour
'leibə 1. noun
1) (hard work: The building of the cathedral involved considerable labour over two centuries; People engaged in manual labour are often badly paid.) kroppsarbeid
2) (workmen on a job: The firm is having difficulty hiring labour.) arbeidskraft
3) ((in a pregnant woman etc) the process of childbirth: She was in labour for several hours before the baby was born.) fødselsveer
4) (used (with capital) as a name for the Socialist party in the United Kingdom.) Arbeiderpartiet
2. verb
1) (to be employed to do hard and unskilled work: He spends the summer labouring on a building site.) arbeide tungt, slite
2) (to move or work etc slowly or with difficulty: They laboured through the deep undergrowth in the jungle; the car engine labours a bit on steep hills.) kjempe seg fram, streve
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- laboriously
- laboriousness
- labourer
- labour court
- labour dispute
- labour-saving
slite
subst. \/ˌleɪbə\/
(også the Labour Party (britisk)Labour (oversettes vanligvis ikke), Arbeiderpartiet
• vote Labour!
Labour government arbeiderregjering
Labour leader leder for Arbeiderpartiet
labour leader arbeiderleder fagforeningsleder
Labour member (i Storbritannia) parlamentsmedlem for Arbeiderpartiet
the labour movement arbeiderbevegelsen

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