labour Signification, définition

Signification de labour en français

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• 1 hard work -- travail

  • The building of the cathedral involved considerable labour/labor over two centuries

  • People engaged in manual labour/labor are often badly paid.

• 2 workmen on a job -- main-d’oeuvre

  • The firm is having difficulty hiring labour/labor.

• 3 (in a pregnant woman etc) the process of childbirth -- (en) travail

  • She was in labour/labor for several hours before the baby was born.

• 4 used with capital as a name for the Socialist party in the United Kingdom. -- travailliste

• 5 to be employed to do hard and unskilled work -- travailler

  • He spends the summer labouring/laboring on a building site.

• 6 to move or work etc slowly or with difficulty -- peiner

  • They laboured/labored through the deep undergrowth in the jungle

  • the car engine labours/labors a bit on steep hills.