Labouring (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 group of people from the village were labouring in the blistering heat to fix the broken dam that supplied water to their town.
- After working as labouring fishermen for years, Jack decided it was time to start his own fishing charter business.
- As a small child, Maria found it difficult to see her parents labouring over their work, with barely any time left for their family.
- Working-class people in the old industrial towns were often portrayed as labouring men struggling to provide for their families.
- The photographs in the museum depicted the harsh conditions faced by labouring men during the Great Depression of the 20th century.