labouring Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. verb work hard
   moil; travail; dig; grind; labour; drudge; toil; labor; fag.
   
   • She was digging away at her math homework
   • Lexicographers drudge all day long
2. verb strive and make an effort to reach a goal
   push; drive; labor; labour; tug.
   
   • She tugged for years to make a decent living
   • We have to push a little to make the deadline!
   • She is driving away at her doctoral thesis
3. verb undergo the efforts of childbirth
   labour; labor.
   
4. adjective satellite doing arduous or unpleasant work
   toiling; drudging; laboring.
   
   • drudging peasants
   • the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton
   • toiling coal miners in the black deeps

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