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labour English

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labour Noun

— Labour is the work that people do, usually lifting, moving, building, etc. rather than desk work. The cost of labour is higher than the cost of building materials. — Labour is the people who do this kind of work. There's a big labour shortage in the construction industry. — Labour is the name of a big political party in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. Labour won the election.

labour Verb

— If you labour, you work hard. He laboured over the food all afternoon to get ready for dinner. — If you labour the point, you keep talking about it after people understand it well.

labour

— noun (= labor) a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field — verb (= labor) undergo the efforts of childbirth — noun (= labor) productive work (especially physical work done for wages) his labor did not require a great deal of skill — verb (= drudge, dig) work hard She was digging away at her math homework Lexicographers drudge all day long — verb (= tug, push, drive) 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 — noun (= labor) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child she was in labor for six hours

Labour

— noun (= Labor) a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries

Synonyms labour synonyms

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labour English » English

labor work toil effort task travail job exertion trouble work hard struggle strive operation business service moil labour force grind employment drudge working class pains manpower hard work working push proletariat objective human resources handling fag endeavor achievement tug trade take pains striving profession pitch parturition parturiency pain lying-in graft give birth function feat fatigue endeavour employed population

Labour English » English

Labour Party Labor British Labour Party labour party labor party labor

Conjugation labour conjugation

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labour · verb

Examples labour examples

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Simple sentences

The assembly line brings efficiencies through the division of labour, but the supervisor decides from day to day about the assignment of jobs.
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
The International Labour Organization defines a workweek exceeding 48 hours as excessive.
We all labour against our own cure; for death is the cure of all disease.

Movie subtitles

Carrie Antoine's gone into labour.
Labour rewarded.
No, I'd be a lot happier if you went to the maternity home as soon as you go into labour.
We'll have 30 people at the reception, or 29, if my sister goes into labour and can't come.
I thought you might enjoy singing, to help you during labour.
A light snack in the first stages of labour can actually help build up some energy.
His spine is lying along your spine, which may make for a longer labour.
It means labour impossible.
You sure you ain't one of them labour fakes?
But me, I labour in the vineyard.
Yet ere he touch at last his native shore, Ulysses must abide one labour more.
There's for thy labour, Mountjoy.
Next day, after dawn doth rise and help Hyperion to his horse, and follows so the ever-running year with profitable labour to his grave.
I'll have a labour-management committee.
Situation finally became impossible when Lord Aldergate joined the Labour Party.
Creative labour pains?
Not without organised labour.
Four hours ago you could have had him court-martialled and sent me to a labour camp, not now.
Scab labour. Huh! The works committee had better hear about this.
Capital and labour are hand-in-hand in this.
And S Montague Brown was eating as if the Labour Party had just been elected unanimously.
Nick wants him to fight in Chicago by Labour Day.
Because it's Labour Day.
I'm not working today! It's Labour Day!
Especially if it will help break down the social barriers between capital and labour.
I would sooner pound the treadmill in the workhouse or pick oakum... than spend another hour engaged in labour such as this.
The summer has arrived and the crops are ripe-- the fruit of honest labour.
There's for thy labour, Montjoy.
All you built up for your country and yourself, with such labour, against such odds.
It's my duty to warn you that aiding an escaped criminal is punishable with two years' hard labour.
I'm exactly like you. At the factory, at the time of the yearly report, days and days spent with numbers and problems, intellectual labour.
The first thing to do is to apply to the local labour exchange.
Labour exchange?
It's that damned labour exchange again.
Cheap labour.
You all heard what was said in the speech about working with coloured labour.

News and current affairs

SINGAPORE - The British shadow minister for Europe, Pat McFadden, recently warned members of his Labour Party that they should try to make the most of the global economy and not treat immigration like a disease.
TEL AVIV: The landslide victory of the leader of the Labour Party, General Ehud Barak, in the May 17th elections in Israel means not only a new government and a new foreign policy.
Ehud Barak, the Labour leader, is made of different stuff.
General Barak won the election as head of a broad coalition led by his own Labour Party, but including also the Gesher Party, representing North African working-class Jewish immigrants as well as the Meimad movement, representing Orthodox Jews.
Many Russian immigrants voted for the first time for a Labour candidate.
LONDON - The race for the leadership of the British Labour Party isn't normally a world-shaking event.
Keynes was not to blame for Labour's defeat; in large part, Scotland was.
The Scottish National Party's crushing victory left Labour with only one seat in the country.
This is what leaders of the Labour party like Alistair Darling, Gordon Brown's Chancellor of the Exchequer, are now saying.
But they seem to have had no influence on the two architects of Labour's election strategy, Ed Miliband and Ed Balls, both now removed from front-line politics.
Another scenario - almost as probable as a Labour-led coalition - is a weak and unstable Conservative government.
To judge by the opinion polls, Cameron's best hope is to win more parliamentary seats than Labour and try to form a minority government, which could survive as long as the other parties failed to unite against it.
A Labour government, wielding tax proposals specifically designed to hit private foreign investors, would certainly discourage inflows.
In either case, GDP growth is likely to slow as business confidence, consumption, and house prices suffer - either from new taxes under Labour or from uncertainties about EU membership under the Conservatives.
Heath was deeply unpopular. But the opposition Labour Party was not convincing either, and had little in the way of an intellectual alternative.
And, because the party programs of the Labour government and the Conservative opposition are not clearly distinguishable, they find it hard to differentiate themselves from the Liberal Democrats.
Their leader outshines his Conservative and Labour counterparts in television debates and on the campaign trail.
Moreover, Labour and the Conservatives are in a political trap.
There are simply no rational grounds for expecting either the Conservatives or Labour to achieve the decisive victory needed to form a stable government.
LONDON - The budget-cutting austerity program of Britain's new coalition government has been claiming all the headlines, but David Cameron's cabinet is breaking with its Labour predecessor in another key area as well: human rights.
Indeed, the human-rights experiment that Tony Blair's Labour government brought to Britain has failed.
In Labour's first nine years of governing, public expenditure as a proportion of GDP was lower than in the comparable Conservative period.
The more Labour-oriented parts of the United Kingdom - Wales, Scotland, and urban England - are over-represented.
Electorates in constituencies where Labour is usually dominant are smaller, and district boundaries take insufficient account of population shifts.
Thus, more votes are needed to elect a Conservative than a Labour MP.
Labour seems to be in that situation today.

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