Labour Of Love (Noun)
Meaning
Productive work performed voluntarily without material reward or compensation.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- Her volunteers at the local animal shelter viewed their efforts as a labour of love, despite the lack of payment.
- Creating this software for charity has been a true labour of love, with all profits going directly to support local schools.
- Running this charity single-handedly for 20 years has been a huge labour of love for my aunt, but it has changed so many lives.
- Producing an open-source dictionary with comprehensive historical linguistic details has been his ongoing labour of love.
- Donating 50 hours per month for more than five years, coaching children to improve their coding skills was for the team an uncompensated but immense labour of love.