Laboring

Definition

labour ( US labor ) /'leÇbǝ(r)/ n ၁။ (က) [U] အလုပ္ၾကမ္း။ manual labour ❍ save on labour costs. (ခ) [C usu pl ] ( fml ) အားထုတ္မႈ။ ဝါယမစိုက္ထုတ္မႈ။ see the results/the fruits of one's labours. ❍ WORK 1 ၂။ [U] အလုပ္ၾကမ္း သမား။ ကာယလုပ္သား။ အလုပ္သမား။ skilled/unskilled labour ❍ the free movement of labour in the European Union ❍ Labour leaders met today at the Trade Union Conference. ❍ labour relations (ie between workers and employers). ၃။ [U, Sing] သားဖြားျခင္း။ go into/be in/begin labour ❍ have labour pains ❍ She had a difficult labour. ၄။ Labour [Gp] ( abbr Lab ) ( Brit politics ) ေလဘာပါတီ။ a Labour candidate/government/ supporter ❍ Labour has said it opposes the government's housing policy. v ၁။ အလုပ္လုပ္သည္။ ႀကိဳးပမ္းသည္။ the labouring classes ❍ I've been labouring (away) at this report all morning. ❍ They are labouring to finish the job on time. See also LABOURING ၂။ ပင္ပန္းႀကီးစြာ (တက္၊ ေရြ႕၊ လည္) သည္။ The van laboured up the steep mountain track. ❏ Labour Day ( US Labor Day ) n အလုပ္သမားေန႔ (ၿဗိတိန္၌ ေမလတစ္ရက္၊ အေမရိကန္တြင္ စက္တင္ဘာလ၏ ပထမတနလၤာေန႔)။ Compare MAYDAY ❏ laboured ( US labored ) adj ၁။ ခက္ခက္ခဲခဲ ပင္ပင္ပန္းပန္း (ျဖစ္ေသာ)။ laboured breathing. (ဖုတ္လိႈက္ဖုတ္လိႈက္) အသက္႐ႉသံ။ ၂။ တမင္တကာ ျဖစ္ညႇစ္ႀကိဳးပမ္းထားေသာ။ his laboured attempts at humour ❍ a laboured style of writing. See also LABORIOUS ၂ ❏ labourer ( US laborer ) /'leÇbǝrǝ(r)/ n အလုပ္ၾကမ္း သမား။ a farm labourer. ❏ labour force n [U] လုပ္သားအင္အား။ a skilled labour force ❍ One in ten of the labour force is now unemployed. ❏ labouring ( US laboring ) /'leÇbǝrÇŋ/ n (U) အလုပ္ၾကမ္း။ He tried a number of labouring jobs. ❏ labour-intensive adj လုပ္သားသံုးေသာ။ ကာယ လုပ္အား သံုး။ using traditional labour-intensive methods. Compare CAPITAL INTENSIVE ❏ a labour of love [ IDM ] ေစတနာသက္သက္၊ ဝါသနာ သက္သက္လုပ္ငန္း။ ❏ the Labour Party n [ GP ] ( Brit politics ) ၿဗိတိန္ႏိုင္ငံ၊ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအဖြဲ႕ႀကီးမ်ားအနက္ တစ္ခုျဖစ္၍ အလုပ္သမားမ်ား ကိုယ္စားျပဳေသာအဖြဲ႕။ ေလဘာပါတီ။ အလုပ္သမားပါတီ။ See also THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY, THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS ❏ labour the point [ IDM ] အပ္ေၾကာင္းထပ္ေအာင္ ေျပာ သည္။ I understand what you're trying to say—there's no need to labour the point. ❏ labour-saving adj အလုပ္သက္သာေစေသာ။ အင္အား ေခြၽတာရာေရာက္ေသာ။ modern labour-saving devices like the washing machine. ❏ labour under sth [ PHRV ] ( fml ) (တလြဲယံုမွတ္၍) ႀကိဳးပမ္းအားထုတ္သည္။ I'm afraid he's still labouring under the delusion that he can act!

Examples

1. The declining demand for labour in agriculture
2. A plentiful supply of cheap labour
3. [skilled/unskilled labour] : The demand for skilled labour in the building industry is high.
4. [casual labour] : Hotel managers need skilled staff and can’t afford to rely on casual labour.
5. A meeting between management and labour
6. [organized labour] : In the 1960s the strength of organized labour was becoming more apparent.
7. A labour dispute
8. The company is passing its higher labour costs on to its customers.
9. The traditional division of labour between men and women in the home
10. The price quoted includes the cost of all labour and materials.
11. In return for his labours
12. he receives food and shelter.
13. Drugs to ensure pain-free labour and delivery
14. [go into labour] : She went into labour early this morning.
15. [be in labour] : His wife was in labour for six hours.
16. Labour pains
17. A labour ward