Clues for the word "LABOR"
We've had 148 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 270 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on October 21, 2025.
Definition of labor
- n. - Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort directed to some useful end, as agriculture, manufactures, and like; servile toil; exertion; work.
- n. - Intellectual exertion; mental effort; as, the labor of compiling a history.
- n. - That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
- n. - Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth.
- n. - Any pang or distress.
- n. - The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
- n. - A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 177/ acres.
- n. - To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil.
- n. - To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.
- n. - To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard, wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden; to be burdened; -- often with under, and formerly with of.
- n. - To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth.
- n. - To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
- v. t. - To work at; to work; to till; to cultivate by toil.
- v. t. - To form or fabricate with toil, exertion, or care.
- v. t. - To prosecute, or perfect, with effort; to urge stre/uously; as, to labor a point or argument.
- v. t. - To belabor; to beat.
Referring Clues
- Childbirth
- Big force in politics
- Grind away
- Big voting bloc
- Part of a mechanic's bill
- Partner of parts
- The "L" of A.F.L.-C.I.O.
- British party
- Management counterpart
- Contractions
- Part of a repair estimate
- Toil
- Parts partner
- Baby bringer
- Lead-up to a special delivery?
- Cabinet department
- Kind of union
- Work
- Car repair cost
- Opponent of management, at times
- Workers
- Childbirth preceder
- Repair bill line
- Work or workers
- Management adversary, at times
- It precedes some deliveries
- Plug away
- Working class
- John L. Lewis' field
- Hard work
- Part of a repair bill
- Car-repair bill figure
- Prebirth period
- Repair-bill part
- Auto repair cost
- Delivery necessity
- Day in September
- Line on a repair bill
- A day in September
- Mechanic's charge
- Israeli political party
- Delivery partner
- Cabinet post
- Delivery preceder
- Woman's work?
- Cabinet department since 1913
- Work only for women?
- A ___ of love
- Unions, collectively
- Herculean task
- Delivery work
- Strive (for)
- Cabinet post
- It involves contractions
- Repair-bill line
- One side of strike negotiations
- Strike-negotiation faction
- Norma Rae's concern
- One side of a strike mediation
- Repair bill item
- Tiring work
- Tough work
- Slave away
- Bargaining side
- Taxing work
- Organized group
- Drudgery
- One in a dozen difficult jobs
- Birthday work for mom
- Workers as a group
- Repair bill segment
- Work hard
- Subject of a September observance
- Force with a holiday
- Pre-childbirth time
- Management's counterpart
- Toil away
- Management opp.
- It may be false
- Thomas Perez's department
- Workers, as opposed to management
- Part of AFL
- Process leading up to childbirth
- It brings out the child in you
- Pre-delivery time
- Birthday event?
- One side of a dispute, often
- It leads to delivery
- "Chore" of childbirth
- Secretary Thomas Perez's department
- It precedes an important delivery
- Part of ILO
- Repair-bill detail
- Striking force?
- It's prior to delivery
- Punishing work
- Important political bloc
- Part of NLRB
- One of the days
- The work force
- Mechanic's charge: parts and ___
- Rise Against "Re-Education (Through ___)"
- Fear Factory "Slave ___"
- Delivery lead-up
- Work or work hard
- Pre-birth period
- Repair-bill line item
- Fatiguing activity
- Part of most body-shop estimates
- Where scientists perform operations research work in US
- Parts go-with
- It comes before a delivery
- Union group
- Job Corps' department
- Pre-delivery period
- Repair bill component
- Delivery process
- Striving
- Birthing
- Line on an auto repair bill
- Slaying the Nemean lion, e.g.
- Birthday challenge?
- Process of childbirth
- Something most people don't go into more than once a year
- Cabinet department concerned with wages
- Delivery lead-in
- Work force
- Word with contracts or contractions
- Birth day ordeal
- Car repair bill line
- Herculean work
- Cabinet department concerned with unpaid overtime
- Counterpart of management
- ___ Day (September observance)
- Put yourself to work
- Accouchement
- Birthday process
- General ___ strike
- Materials partner on a repair bill
- ___ Day (early September observance)
- Physical effort
- "I don't dream of ___" (response to "What's your dream job?")
- Department concerned with wages
- It's working!
- It usually precedes delivery
- U.S. Department of ___ (org. with an anvil on its seal)
- Childbirth process
- When one might hope for same-day delivery?
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - October 21, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 06, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 08, 2025
- LA Times - September 06, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 10, 2025
- New York Times - July 02, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 28, 2025
- USA Today - February 10, 2025
- USA Today - December 20, 2024
- New York Times - December 17, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 08, 2024
- USA Today - November 03, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 13, 2024
- Mirror Daily - September 03, 2024
- Mirror Daily - May 21, 2024
- New York Times - May 20, 2024
- Mirror Daily - May 09, 2024
- LA Times - May 09, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 08, 2024
- USA Today - April 05, 2024
- Mirror Daily - March 16, 2024
- USA Today - March 12, 2024
- Mirror Daily - February 01, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 12, 2023
- LA Times - November 21, 2023
- Mirror Daily - November 15, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 28, 2023
- LA Times - October 09, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 16, 2023
- And in 240 more crossword puzzles...