laboring

3.3

Doing hard physical work

adjective
/ˈleɪbərɪŋ/

: trabajador

The laboring workers in the factory often complained about their long hours.

And so I've spoken about how women laboring in science are not working in safe spaces all of the time.

Examples

After a laboring day on the construction site, he was exhausted and ready to rest.
She found satisfaction in her laboring role as a farmer, despite the tough conditions.
And this is your own body, right, And your laboring capacity, he said.
That was the last of my labouring at home.
And the populist made efforts to make connections with the the labouring labor, the new labor unions.
That's what drives the story, a gradual separation of the laboring subject and the objective conditions of the worker.

Synonyms

drudging

vslaboring

8.2

Doing boring, hard work that needs a lot of effort

focuses on strong physical effort and unpleasant hardship rather than boredom

Antonyms

rest

703 1.0

A period when you stop activity to relax or sleep

idle

57 2.8

Not working or being used

Compounds

laboring oar

Archaic

9.9

A person who does most of the work in a group

How Hard

to slave

47 5.3

toil

16 5.8

laboring

3.3

to slog

5 6.7

work

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

laboring positive

labouring positive

Morphology

laboring = labor (transparent) = labor + ing

Formed by the productive verb + -ing participial/gerundial suffix; the adjectival meaning ('engaged in work') is directly inferred from the base.

Etymology

Laboring comes from the Latin root labor, which means 'work' or 'toil', and you can see the same root in the familiar word laborer. So laboring describes someone doing hard, often physical and unpleasant, work.