labor

trabajo, mano de obra

Trabajo que exige esfuerzo, especialmente el que se hace con el cuerpo.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: work, toil

Expresiones frecuentes: manual labor, hard labor, labor costs

mano de obra, trabajadores

Los trabajadores considerados en conjunto, especialmente quienes realizan trabajo físico.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: workforce, workers

Expresiones frecuentes: skilled labor, labor shortage, labor force

parto, trabajo de parto

Proceso previo y durante el nacimiento en que las contracciones musculares ayudan al bebé a salir del cuerpo de la madre.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Cómo se usa: be in labor (She was in labor when we reached the hospital.); go into labor (My sister went into labor last night.)

Sinónimos: childbirth

Expresiones frecuentes: in labor, go into labor, early labor

Partido Laborista

Nombre de un partido político vinculado a los trabajadores y sus intereses.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Expresiones frecuentes: Labor Party, Labor government, vote Labor

trabajar duro, afanarse

Trabajar con mucho esfuerzo, a menudo durante mucho tiempo.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Cómo se usa: labor over something (He labored over the report for several days.); labor to do something (They labored to clear the fallen trees.)

Sinónimos: toil, work hard

Antónimos: rest

Expresiones frecuentes: labor over something, labor in something, labor all day

insistir demasiado

Explicar o repetir algo más de lo necesario.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: belabor

Expresiones frecuentes: labor the point, labor an argument, labor the obvious