laborist

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a supporter of workers' rights or of a political movement centered on organized labor

   The laborist argued that trade unions needed direct political representation.

2. 2
   adj

   supporting or characteristic of organized labor and its political interests

   The pamphlet proposed a laborist program of workplace democracy and collective bargaining.

3. 3
   noun

   medicine: a physician who manages labor and delivery in a hospital, often without providing the patient's prenatal care

   A laborist remained on the maternity ward overnight to handle urgent deliveries.

Formed from labor + -ist. Labor came through Old French from Latin labor ("toil, exertion"). The political word names an adherent of labor interests; modern medicine independently uses the same formation for a hospital-based specialist in childbirth.

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