labour of love

1. 1.

   productive work performed voluntarily without material reward or compensation

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Questions about labour of love

What does labour of love mean?

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

What is another word for labour of love?

Close synonyms include labor 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 labour of love a common word?

labour 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.