labour

labour
(BrE) (AmE labor) noun
1 work
ADJECTIVE
▪ manual, physical
▪ back-breaking, forced, hard
▪

He was sentenced to four years hard labour for his crime.

▪ productive, unproductive
▪ unpaid
VERB + LABOUR/LABOR
▪ withdraw
▪

The miners are threatening to withdraw their labour.

LABOUR/LABOR + NOUN
▪ productivity
▪ camp
▪

Dissidents were forced to work in labour camps.

2 workers
ADJECTIVE
▪ free, organized
▪ wage
▪ cheap, low-cost
▪ casual, day (AmE)
▪ skilled, unskilled
▪ illegal
▪ foreign, immigrant, migrant
▪ child, slave
▪

It is now thought that the Pyramids were not built using slave labour.

▪ prison
▪ farm
▪ sweatshop
LABOUR/LABOR + NOUN
▪ force
▪

the size of the labour force

▪ market, pool, supply
▪

an increasingly competitive labour market

▪ shortage
▪ cost, costs
▪ movement
▪

tensions between the labour movement and government

▪ organization
▪ activist, leader
▪ relations
▪ dispute
▪ law
3 giving birth
ADJECTIVE
▪ difficult, easy
▪ long, short
▪

The baby was born after a long labour.

▪ preterm
▪

women at risk of preterm labour

VERB + LABOUR/LABOR
▪ go into
▪

She went into labour two weeks early.

▪ induce
▪

Labour was induced when the baby was ten days overdue.

LABOUR/LABOR + NOUN
▪ room, ward (BrE)
▪ pains
PREPOSITION
▪ in labour
▪

She was in labour for ten hours.


Collocations dictionary. 2013.

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