labor

/ˈleɪ.bər/

意味: 労働、努力、出産

例文: June respected the fairy’s long labor.
　　  ジューンは妖精の長い労働を尊重した。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: labor force(労働力), labor market(労働市場), labor union(労働組合)

定義: 労働とは、人が仕事をしてお金を稼ぐことを指します。体を使ったり、頭を使ったりして、何かを作ったり、サービスを提供したりする活動です。労働は、経済活動の一部であり、社会の中で重要な役割を果たします。

laborは約20,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
Noun: productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
Noun: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
Noun: an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement
Noun: a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor’s interests and formerly the socialization of key industries
Noun: the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913
Noun: any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
Verb: strive and make an effort to reach a goal
Verb: work hard
Verb: undergo the efforts of childbirth

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The labor market is changing rapidly.(労働市場は急速に変化している。)
She began labor early in the morning.(彼女は朝早くに陣痛が始まった。)
Manual labor can be very exhausting.(肉体労働は非常に疲れることがある。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field
Noun: his labor did not require a great deal of skill
Noun: she was in labor for six hours
Noun: he prepared for great undertakings
Verb: She tugged for years to make a decent living
Verb: We have to push a little to make the deadline!
Verb: She is driving away at her doctoral thesis
Verb: She was digging away at her math homework
Verb: Lexicographers drudge all day long

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): British Labour Party, Department of Labor, DoL, Labor, Labor Department, Labour, Labour Party, childbed, confinement, dig, drive, drudge, fag, grind, labor, labor movement, labour, lying-in, moil, parturiency, project, proletariat, push, task, toil, trade union movement, travail, tug, undertaking, working class

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): class, executive department, fight, labor party, parturition, reform movement, undergo, work

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): action, age class, agriculture, australian labor party, bank, booboisie, british labour party, brooding, brotherhood, busywork, calving, care, caste, center, childbirth, commonalty, coursework, craft, demimonde, department of agriculture, department of commerce, department of commerce and labor, department of defense, department of education, department of energy, department of health and human services, department of health education and welfare, department of homeland security, department of housing and urban development, department of justice, department of labor, department of state, department of the interior, department of the treasury, department of transportation, department of veterans affairs, drive, duty, enlightenment, estate of the realm, experience, farm, farrow, fill, fink, firing line, flounder, freelance, hatch, heavy lifting, housewifery, housework, immigrant class, investigation, ironing, job, labor, labor movement, laying, logging, loose end, lower class, man, market, middle class, mission, moonlight, navy department, nightwork, ninja, old school, operation, paperwork, parturiency, peasantry, respire, serve, service, shining, slave, spadework, subbing, subcontract, take, timework, tinker, tug, turn a trick, undertaking, underworld, upper class, war department, wash, welfare work, white house, womanhood, world, yeomanry

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): adventure, assignment, baby, cinch, corvee, drudgery, effort, enterprise, hackwork, haymaking, hunt, industrial workers of the world, labor force, labor of love, lumpenproletariat, manual labor, marathon, no-brainer, organized labor, overwork, premature labor, proposition, roping, slavery, strive, tall order, unionism, venture

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: drive, drudge, drudgery, grind, labor, laborer, laborious, labour, labourer, parturient, project, proletarian, push, task, toil, toiler, travail, undertake

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: law

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: business, descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

大学受験レベル

英検準2級

TOEIC700

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1

Movies(映画):

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: anticipation, joy, positive, surprise, trust