travail — meaning in English
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English meaning
- duty noun Something a person is morally or legally obligated to do.
- employment noun A paid job or work that someone does regularly.
- job noun A paid position of regular employment.
- labour noun Hard physical or mental effort put into a task; work.
- travail noun Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.
- work noun A job or occupation; the activity someone does to earn a living.
- workplace noun The location, such as an office or factory, where someone does their job.
Senses
travail is used for these senses in English:
- duty (engineering) The efficiency of an engine in work done per unit of fuel; particularly, the number of pounds of water which a steam pumping engine can raise one foot by burning one bushel or hundredweight of coal.
- employment The occupation or work for which one is used, and often paid.
- job A task.
- job An economic role for which a person is paid.
- job (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
- labour (uncountable) Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.
- travail Specifically, the labor of childbirth. [from 13th c.]
- work Labour, occupation, job.
duty — full definition
- noun Something a person is morally or legally obligated to do.
- noun A tax charged on goods, especially imports.
- noun The period during which someone is actively working or on call.
employment — full definition
- noun A paid job or work that someone does regularly.
- noun The state or condition of having a paid job.