la ‧ bour ‧ ing BrE AmE British English , laboring American English /ˈleɪb ə rɪŋ/ adjective [only before noun]
1 . labouring class/family etc old-fashioned people who do hard physical work and who do not have a lot of money or power, considered as a group:
They wanted to provide education for the labouring classes.
2 . involving hard physical work:
a labouring job