labour

['leɪbə(r)] 1. (US labor) n

(hard work) ciężka praca f; (work force) siła f robocza; (work done by work force) praca f; (MED)

to be in labour — rodzić

2. vi

to labour (at sth) — mozolić się (nad czymś)

3. vt

to labour a point — (zbytnio) rozwodzić się nad zagadnieniem

Labour, the Labour Party (BRIT) — Partia Pracy

hard labour — (toil) harówka (inf); (punishment) ciężkie roboty

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['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.) (ciężka) praca

2) (workmen on a job: The firm is having difficulty hiring labour.) siła robocza

3) ((in a pregnant woman etc) the process of childbirth: She was in labour for several hours before the baby was born.) poród

4) (used (with capital) as a name for the Socialist party in the United Kingdom.) Partia Pracy

2. verb

1) (to be employed to do hard and unskilled work: He spends the summer labouring on a building site.) harować

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.) poruszać się z trudem, pracować z mozołem

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- laborious

- laboriously
- laboriousness
- labourer
- labour court
- labour dispute
- labour-saving