Labour vs Tory - What's the difference?
labour | tory |
Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
* 1719, (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)
That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
* (Richard Hooker) (1554-1600)
(uncountable) Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.
*, chapter=22
, title= (uncountable) A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
The act of a mother giving birth.
The time period during which a mother gives birth.
(nautical) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
An old measure of land area in Mexico and Texas, approximately 177 acres.
To toil, to work.
To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).
To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard or wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden.
* Granville
* Alexander Pope
* Sir Walter Scott
To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
(nautical) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
(British) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party, which evolved from Royalist politicians; associated with upholding the rights of the monarchy and the privileges of the established Church.
(by extension) One who is like a British Tory; someone politically conservative.
(Canada) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party of Canada, one of that party's predecessors, or an affiliated provincial political party.
(historical) A pejorative nickname given to the political factions who sought to exclude from the throne of England (the Exclusioners) in the 17th century.
(now, historical, pejorative) An Irish rebel fighting against English rule at the end of the Confederate War and Cromwellian invasion; later extended to other rebels or bandits.
(US, historical, American Revolution) A loyal British citizen.
(US, historical, American Civil War, Confederate states) A Union sympathizer.
(British) Of or belonging to the Tory Party or the Conservative Party.
(Canada) Of or belonging to the Conservative Party of Canada, one of that party's predecessors, or an affiliated provincial political party.
As nouns the difference between labour and tory
is that labour is effort expended on a particular task; toil, work while Tory is a member or supporter of the Conservative Party, which evolved from Royalist politicians; associated with upholding the rights of the monarchy and the privileges of the established Church.As a verb labour
is to toil, to work.As a proper noun Labour
is Short for the Labour Party.As an adjective Tory is
of or belonging to the Tory Party or the Conservative Party.labour
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Alternative forms
* labor (US)Noun
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada)- Being a labour of so great a difficulty, the exact performance thereof we may rather wish than look for.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.}}
- (Bartlett)
Usage notes
Like many other words ending in -our''/''-or'', this word is spelled ''labour'' in the UK and ''labor'' in the U.S.; in Canada, ''labour'' is preferred, but ''labor'' is not unknown. In Australia, where ''labour'' is the usual spelling, ''labor'' is nonetheless used in the name of the , reflecting the fact that the ''-or endings had some currency in Australia in the past. * Adjectives often used with "labour": physical, mental, technical, organised.Synonyms
*Derived terms
* (The act of a mother giving birth) labour painVerb
(en-verb) (UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada)- I think we've all got the idea. There's no need to labour the point.
- the stone that labours up the hill
- The line too labours , and the words move slow.
- to cure the disorder under which he laboured
- (Totten)