Synonyms:
labor, labour, working_class, proletariat
Meaning: a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
Usage examples
Great was the labour; priceless the reward.
The Labour men tell me he is superb in that line.
No labour could fatigue his body or subdue his mind.
"If thou'rt doing that for me, Mary, thou may'st spare thy labour.
"His thoughts embraced all those petty people who toiled at hard labour.
In the mean time I worked on, and my labour was already considerably advanced.
She resolved, by an unexampled labour for a woman, to effect the delivery of her husband.
Would it not be wise in us to abandon useless talking, idle thinking, and profitless labour?
And then Sir Launcelot returned unto Dame Bragwaine, and she thanked him of his great labour.
It appears to me far more suggestive than the alternative plan--Citizenship, Labour, and so forth.