labor

Arbeit

Arbeit, die Mühe erfordert, besonders körperliche Arbeit.

In einfachem Englisch: Work that requires effort, especially work done with your body.

• The job involves heavy labor.
• Labor costs increased during construction.
• They saved money by doing all the labor themselves.

Synonyme: work, toil

Häufige Wendungen: manual labor, hard labor, labor costs

Arbeitskräfte, Arbeiterschaft

Arbeitende Menschen als Gruppe, besonders diejenigen, die körperliche Arbeit leisten.

In einfachem Englisch: Workers considered as a group, especially people who do physical work.

• The farm needs more labor.
• A shortage of skilled labor delayed the project.
• Management and labor agreed on a new contract.

Synonyme: workforce, workers

Häufige Wendungen: skilled labor, labor shortage, labor force

Wehen, Geburtsarbeit

Der Vorgang vor und während der Geburt, bei dem Muskelkontraktionen das Baby aus dem Körper der Mutter drücken.

In einfachem Englisch: The process before and during birth, when muscles push the baby out of the mother’s body.

• She is in labor.
• Her labor lasted six hours.
• The midwife helped her through the early stages of labor.

So benutzt man es: be in labor (She was in labor when we reached the hospital.); go into labor (My sister went into labor last night.)

Synonyme: childbirth

Häufige Wendungen: in labor, go into labor, early labor

Labour-Partei

Der Name einer politischen Partei, die mit Arbeitnehmern und ihren Interessen verbunden ist.

In einfachem Englisch: The name of a political party connected with workers and their interests.

• Labor won the election.
• She voted for Labor last year.
• The Labor government announced its new policy.

Häufige Wendungen: Labor Party, Labor government, vote Labor

schuften, sich abmühen

Sehr hart arbeiten, oft über längere Zeit.

In einfachem Englisch: To work very hard, often for a long time.

• They labor in the fields.
• She labored over the difficult homework.
• We labored all morning to repair the fence.

So benutzt man es: labor over something (He labored over the report for several days.); labor to do something (They labored to clear the fallen trees.)

Synonyme: toil, work hard

Gegenteile: rest

Häufige Wendungen: labor over something, labor in something, labor all day

breittreten

Etwas öfter erklären oder wiederholen, als nötig ist.

In einfachem Englisch: To explain or repeat something more than is needed.

• Please do not labor the point.
• He labored the argument until everyone lost interest.
• You are laboring a point we already understand.

Synonyme: belabor

Häufige Wendungen: labor the point, labor an argument, labor the obvious