16 example sentences using labor.
Labor used in a sentence
Labor in a sentence as a noun
Well, so did mine -- on the other side of the management/labor divide.
Tech companies should not therefore look to Big Corps who just hire large amounts of unskilled labor.
[The worker] needs a job, but their labor is surplus and unnecessary.
I am certainly less snarky about kids going to do unskilled construction labor.
Often this takes the form of hard, manual labor, agricultural or otherwise.
I imagine they have spent many iterations on the problem, and I am very excited to see the fruits of their labor.
My brother worked very hard to add software where possible but needed to do mostly 'real world' labor to get to his customers.
The objective of a labor intensive business is to drive costs down the lowest possible amount legally.
Labor in a sentence as a verb
There are a lot of very fundamental misunderstandings of economics and labor structures in here.
But there are other less dramatic things they might be doing besides money laundering: using undocumented labor, for example.
As agriculture labor shifted to much cheaper migrant workers and automation, the people who used to live in these places year round either became less affluent, or moved away.
Means-tested social assistance is now a vestigial remnant of an economy strictly dependent upon labor as its primary input for growth.
Drivers ended up atomized and could not collectively bargain against the buyers of their labor, decently-sized companies who had monopsony power in the trucker marketplace.
Undocumented labor is a more likely possibility, but again, no restaurant or in fact no retail place in Paris will let you take pictures inside their premises without a very strong confrontation.
However, in the 80s and 90s, various Republican and Democratic administrations collaborated with trucking companies to make war on the unions.
In part this is because Washington allows non-competes, but also doesn't like to infringe on the free flow of labor -- temporary restraining orders preventing an individual from working for a company are extraordinarily rare.
Labor definitions
a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"
See also: labour proletariat
productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"
See also: parturiency labour confinement lying-in travail childbed
an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement
a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries
the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913
See also: Labor
any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted; "he prepared for great undertakings"
See also: undertaking project task
strive and make an effort to reach a goal; "She tugged for years to make a decent living"; "We have to push a little to make the deadline!"; "She is driving away at her doctoral thesis"
work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
undergo the efforts of childbirth
See also: labour