Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A member of a labor party or one who is an advocate of the interests of labor.
- Pertaining to labor and its interests.
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- noun A
physician who aidslabor anddelivery but does not provideprenatal care.
Etymologies
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Presumably from labor.
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Examples
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In Denning's formulation, the Popular Front is more productively viewed in Gramscian terms, as a "historical bloc uniting industrial unionists, Communists, independent socialists, community activists, and émigré anti-fascists around laborist social democracy, anti-fascism and anti-lynching."
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007
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Syndicalism, on the contrary, is indubitably laborist in origin and aim, owing next to nothing to the "Classes," and, indeed,, resolute to uproot them.
Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism 1914
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New laborist, nurse midwives hired at Cape Cod Hospital
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