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Synonyms for labor

physical exertion that is usually difficult and exhausting

to exert one's mental or physical powers, usually under difficulty and to the point of exhaustion

to express at greater length or in greater detail

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Synonyms for labor

an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement

a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900

the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States

strive and make an effort to reach a goal

undergo the efforts of childbirth

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The study reviewed records over a 10-year period (1996-2006) to see if LEEPs increased the rate of arrested labor in particular or cesarean section rates (CSR) in general.
From a psychological point of view, we might theorize that the fear and tension is connected to a desire to avoid delivering and results in prolonged or arrested labor. One might wonder why a mother might prolong labor and pain.
At the same time, they must show how the second Ahmadinejad term, supported by the supreme leader, has cracked down really hard on labor unions, arrested labor leaders, and repressed protests by everyone from bus drivers and sugarcane workers to oil workers and teachers.
However, some activists show independence and, in 2007, the regime arrested labor activists for teachers' associations, bus drivers' unions, and a bakery workers' union.
"We didn't section them for distress, but later on in their labor, we sectioned them for dystocia or arrested labor. Maybe abnormal fetal heart rate tracings in early labor are the baby's response to the fact that there is a malpresentation, or just a size discrepancy, which then later results in dystocia," DR.