n. 25B6; noun
manual labour : (HARD) WORK, toil, exertion, industry, drudgery, effort, donkey work, menial work; informal slog, grind, sweat, elbow grease; Brit. informal graft; poetic/literary travail, moil.
the conflict between capital and labour : WORKERS, employees, workmen, workforce, staff, working people, blue-collar workers, labourers, labour force, proletariat.
the labours of Hercules : TASK, job, chore, mission, assignment. See list.
a difficult labour : CHILDBIRTH, birth, delivery, nativity; contractions, labour pains; formal parturition; poetic/literary travail; dated confinement; archaic lying-in, accouchement, childbed.
rest, management.
25B6; verb
a project on which he had laboured for many years : WORK (HARD), toil, slave (away), grind away, struggle, strive, exert oneself, work one's fingers to the bone, work like a Trojan/slave; informal slog away, plug away, peg away; Brit. informal graft; poetic/literary travail; archaic moil.
Newcastle laboured to break down their defence : STRIVE, struggle, endeavour, work, try hard, make every effort, do one's best, do one's utmost, do all one can, give one's all, go all out, fight, put oneself out, apply oneself, exert oneself; informal bend/lean over backwards, pull out all the stops.
there is no need to labour the point : OVEREMPHASIZE, belabour, overstress, overdo, strain, overplay, make too much of, exaggerate, dwell on, harp on (about).
Rex was labouring under a misapprehension : SUFFER FROM, be a victim of, be deceived by, be misled by.
The Labours of Hercules
the slaying of the Nemean lion the capture of the Cretan bull
the slaying of the Lernaean hydra the capture of the horses of Diomedes
the capture of the hind of Ceryneia the taking of the girdle of Hippolyte
the capture of the wild boar of Erymanthus the capture of the cattle of Geryon
the cleansing of the Augean stables the recovery of the golden apples of Hesperides
the shooting of the Stymphalian birds the taking of Cerberus