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Laboring vs. Labouring — What's the Difference?

Laboring vs. Labouring — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Laboring and Labouring

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Laboring

Physical or mental exertion, especially when difficult or exhausting; work.

Labouring

Present participle of labour

Laboring

A specific task or effort, especially a painful or arduous one
"Eating the bread was a labor I put myself through to quiet my stomach" (Gail Anderson-Dargatz).

Labouring

The act of one who labours; toil; work done.

Laboring

A particular form of work or method of working
Manual labor.
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Labouring

Doing arduous or unpleasant work;
Drudging peasants
The bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton
Toiling coal miners in the black deeps

Laboring

Work for wages
Businesses paying more for labor.

Laboring

Workers considered as a group.

Laboring

The trade union movement, especially its officials.

Laboring

Labor A political party representing workers' interests, especially in Great Britain.

Laboring

The process by which childbirth occurs, beginning with contractions of the uterus and ending with the expulsion of the fetus or infant and the placenta.

Laboring

To work; toil
Labored in the fields.

Laboring

To strive painstakingly
Labored over the needlepoint.

Laboring

To proceed with great effort; plod
Labored up the hill.

Laboring

(Nautical) To pitch and roll.

Laboring

To suffer from distress or a disadvantage
Labored under the misconception that others were cooperating.

Laboring

To undergo the labor of childbirth.

Laboring

To deal with in exhaustive or excessive detail; belabor
Labor a point in the argument.

Laboring

To distress; burden
I will not labor you with trivial matters.

Laboring

Of or relating to labor.

Laboring

Labor Of or relating to a Labor Party.

Laboring

(US) labor

Laboring

The act of one who labors; toil; work done.

Laboring

That labors; performing labor; esp., performing coarse, heavy work, not requiring skill also, set apart for labor; as, laboring days.
The sleep of a laboring man is sweet.

Laboring

Suffering pain or grief.

Laboring

Doing arduous or unpleasant work;
Drudging peasants
The bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton
Toiling coal miners in the black deeps

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