labour

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There's simply not enough demand for labour today.

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Quick take

a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of labour gathered in one view.

noun

a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"

noun

concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"

noun

a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for labour.

noun

a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"

noun

concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"

noun

a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries

noun

productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"

verb

work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"

See also: labor, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil

verb

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"

verb

undergo the efforts of childbirth

Example sentences

There's simply not enough demand for labour today.

Google did not mark the labour camps, a human rights activist made a map of the labour camps with Google Earth.

Some labourers say they have been denied access to free drinking water in the desert heat.

From the article: Evidence of forced labour on a huge World Cup infrastructure project.

When they arrived at the home of a woman in labour, two people had to carry a massive box with gilded carvings into the house.

While it has benefits for creating stable communities it also creates an inflexible labour market as people won't move to where the jobs are.

There are much better avenues that would be cheaper and have more positive effect on people: basic risk, valuation and business skills being taught in early high-school, television campaigns that encourage people to think about how their labour is used, what they could do to make themselves marketable.

Macroeconomics can, via some stretching of the perfect-markets hypothesis, be transformed into this almost-Calvinist cosmology, where the virtuous labourers will be blessed with an eventual retirement, and the sinful free-loaders will be punished with the sin of contentment.