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.


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