aboulia | (noun) a loss of will power | Synonyms: abulia |
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gadabout | (noun) a restless seeker after amusement or social companionship | - |
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knockabout | (noun) a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit | - |
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labour | (noun) productive work (especially physical work done for wages) | Synonyms: labor, toil |
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(noun) any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted | Synonyms: labor, project, task, undertaking |
(noun) a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages | Synonyms: labor, proletariat, working class |
(noun) an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement | Synonyms: labor, labor movement, trade union movement |
(noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: childbed, confinement, labor, lying-in, parturiency, travail |
labourer | (noun) someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor | Synonyms: jack, laborer, manual laborer |
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layabout | (noun) person who does no work | Synonyms: bum, do-nothing, idler, loafer |
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marabou | (noun) large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its downy underwing feathers are used to trim garments | Synonyms: Leptoptilus crumeniferus, marabou stork, marabout |
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(noun) the downy feathers of marabou storks are used for trimming garments | - |
marabout | (noun) large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its downy underwing feathers are used to trim garments | Synonyms: Leptoptilus crumeniferus, marabou, marabou stork |
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raceabout | (noun) a small sloop having the keep of a knockabout but with finer lines and carrying more sail | - |
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roundabout | (noun) a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island | Synonyms: circle, rotary, traffic circle |
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(noun) a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement | Synonyms: carousel, carrousel, merry-go-round, whirligig |
roustabout | (noun) a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor | Synonyms: deckhand |
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runabout | (noun) an open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat | Synonyms: roadster, two-seater |
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tabour | (noun) a small drum with one head of soft calfskin | Synonyms: tabor |
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tabouret | (noun) a low stool in the shape of a drum | Synonyms: taboret |
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turnabout | (noun) turning in the opposite direction | Synonyms: reversal, reverse, reversion, turnaround |
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(noun) a decision to reverse an earlier decision | Synonyms: change of mind, flip-flop, reversal, turnaround |
walkabout | (noun) nomadic excursions into the bush made by an Aborigine | - |
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(noun) a public stroll by a celebrity to meet people informally | - |
(noun) a walking trip or tour | - |
whereabouts | (noun) the general location where something is | - |
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