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labouring oar

labouring oar is the alternative spelling of laboring oar.

Meaning of laboring oar

Noun

laboring oar (plural laboring oars)

  1. An oar that is worked with great effort.
  2. (US, broadly, figuratively) The part of a task that requires the greatest effort to achieve.
    • And so too, when new issues demanding new policy calls come up within that scheme, Congress presumably wants the same agency, rather than any court, to take the laboring oar.2019, Kisor v. Wilkie (U.S. Supreme Court No. 18-15), Justice Kagan

Forms of labouring oar

plurallabouring oars

Questions about labouring oar

What is labouring oar the alternative spelling of?
Labouring oar is the alternative spelling of laboring oar.

Words near labouring oar in the dictionary

  1. labouress
  2. labouresses
  3. labourest
  4. laboureth
  5. labouring
  6. labouring oar
  7. labouring oars
  8. labouring the point
  9. labouringly
  10. labourings
  11. labourious

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