labor

travail, main-d’œuvre

Travail qui demande des efforts, surtout des efforts physiques.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : work, toil

Expressions courantes : manual labor, hard labor, labor costs

main-d’œuvre, travailleurs

Les personnes qui travaillent, considérées comme un groupe, surtout celles qui font un travail physique.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : workforce, workers

Expressions courantes : skilled labor, labor shortage, labor force

travail, accouchement

Phase précédant et accompagnant la naissance, où les contractions font sortir le bébé du corps de la mère.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : be in labor (She was in labor when we reached the hospital.); go into labor (My sister went into labor last night.)

Synonymes : childbirth

Expressions courantes : in labor, go into labor, early labor

Parti travailliste

Nom d’un parti politique lié aux travailleurs et à leurs intérêts.

En anglais simple : 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.

Expressions courantes : Labor Party, Labor government, vote Labor

travailler dur, peiner

Travailler avec beaucoup d’efforts, souvent pendant longtemps.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : labor over something (He labored over the report for several days.); labor to do something (They labored to clear the fallen trees.)

Synonymes : toil, work hard

Contraires : rest

Expressions courantes : labor over something, labor in something, labor all day

insister lourdement

Expliquer ou répéter quelque chose plus que nécessaire.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : belabor

Expressions courantes : labor the point, labor an argument, labor the obvious