also labor (American)
1 hard work: The building of the cathedral involved considerable labour/labor over two centuries; People engaged in manual labour/labor are often badly paid.
az: əmək, zəhmət
ru: труд
2 workmen on a job: The firm is having difficulty hiring labour/labor.
az: işçi, əməkçi
ru: рабочие
3 (in a pregnant woman etc) the process of childbirth: She was in labour/labor for several hours before the baby was born.
az: doğuş ağrıları
ru: роды
4 used (with capital) as a name for the Socialist party in the United Kingdom.
az: leyborist partiyası
ru: лейбористская партия
♦ verb
1 to be employed to do hard and unskilled work: He spends the summer labouring/laboring on a building site.
az: əziyyətə qatlaşmaq, işləmək
ru: трудиться
2 to move or work etc slowly or with difficulty: They laboured/labored through the deep undergrowth in the jungle; the car engine labours/labors a bit on steep hills.
az: gərgin çalışmaq, güc sərf etmək
ru: двигаться/работать с трудом
See also:
English-Azerbaijani dictionary