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travailler — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • labour noun Hard physical or mental effort put into a task; work.
  • till prep Up to the time of; until.
  • toil noun Hard, exhausting work.
  • work noun A job or occupation; the activity someone does to earn a living.

Senses

travailler is used for these senses in English:

  • labour (intransitive) To toil, to work.
  • till (transitive) To work or cultivate or plough (soil); to prepare for growing vegetation and crops.
  • work (transitive) To work or operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
  • work (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
  • work (law) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.

labour — full definition

  1. noun Hard physical or mental effort put into a task; work.
  2. noun Workers as a group, especially the working class, or a political movement representing them.
  3. noun The process of childbirth, including the contractions leading up to it.
  4. verb To work hard at something, or to move forward with great effort or difficulty.

till — full definition

  1. prep Up to the time of; until.
  2. noun A cash register, or the drawer inside one that holds money.
  3. verb To prepare and cultivate land for growing crops.

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