laboring

Thân thiện

A farmer is laboring in the field under the hot sun.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Engaged in hard physical work: Describes someone who is actively performing strenuous, demanding, or physically exhausting tasks.
   • Characterized by toil or effort: Pertaining to work that requires significant exertion, often over a long period.

Usage

• The word "laboring" is used to describe a person, group, or activity involving strenuous physical effort. It often implies that the work is difficult, tiring, and sometimes unskilled or menial. It functions as an adjective to modify nouns like "class," "people," "hands," or "breath."

Examples

• Adjective:
  • The laboring workers finally took a break under the shade.
  • She was breathing with a laboring rhythm after climbing the steep hill.
  • The economy relies on the laboring population in manufacturing and agriculture.

Advanced Usage

• "Laboring under a delusion/misapprehension": This is a common idiomatic use where "laboring" means struggling with or being burdened by a false belief.
  • He is laboring under the delusion that success comes without effort.
• "The laboring oar": A metaphorical phrase referring to doing the hardest part of a task.
  • In this project, she pulled the laboring oar, managing all the complex logistics.

Variants and Related Words

• Labor (verb/noun): The base form meaning to work hard or the work itself.
  • They labor in the fields from dawn till dusk.
• Laborer (noun): A person who does physical work, especially of an unskilled kind.
  • The construction site employed dozens of laborers.
• Laborious (adjective): Requiring considerable time and effort; characterized by hard work.
  • Writing the report was a laborious process.

Synonyms

• Toiling: Working extremely hard or incessantly.
• Drudging: Doing hard, menial, or dull work.
• Struggling: Making a forceful effort or striving under difficulty.

Related Phrases

• Labor of love: A task done for pleasure, not reward.
  • Restoring the old car was a true labor of love for him.
• Hard labor: Punitive physical work, especially as a judicial sentence.
  • The convict was sentenced to five years of hard labor.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. doing arduous or unpleasant work
   • drudging peasants
   • the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton
   • toiling coal miners in the black deeps

Từ đồng nghĩa

• drudging
• labouring
• toiling