labor of love

1. 1.

   productive work performed voluntarily without material reward or compensation

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Questions about labor of love

What does labor of love mean?

labor of love means "productive work performed voluntarily without material reward or compensation".

What is another word for labor of love?

Close synonyms include labour of love. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is labor of love a common word?

labor of love is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.