Laboring (Adjective)
Meaning
Doing arduous or unpleasant work; "drudging peasants"; "the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton"; "toiling coal miners in the black deeps".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The workers were laboring to meet the tight deadline of the construction project.
- Farmers often find themselves laboring under the hot sun to bring in the harvest.
- The mining industry employs laboring individuals working in hazardous conditions deep underground.
- Laboring at the docks, stevedores had to unload the cargo from the massive container ships.
- Locals labored in the textile factory despite the grueling conditions in order to make ends meet for their families.