Wordcyclopedia | English | contract for work and labour

contract Noun

— A contract is a legal agreement to trade goods, services and/or property. It's usually written down. If you would just sign this contract, the car will be yours. In Japan, most worker’s employment contracts last until the age of sixty. My father’s employment contract is for forty years. You must look over the contract before you sign it.

contract Verb

— If something contracts, it gets smaller. As the wood dries out, it contracts. — If you contract someone to do a job, you enter into a contract with them. We've contracted a cleaning company to take care of the office. When there's too much work, there are a number of small firms to which we will contract it out. — If you contract a disease, you become sick with it. It's hard to understand why people risk contracting sexually transmitted diseases. He contracted the flu.

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for Preposition

— shows that something belongs to something else, or has a specific function This cake is for you. This is a net for catching fish. — For is used to show the reason for something He was angry, for he had never been called such terrible names before.

for Subordinator

— For introduces a clause with a subject and a to-infinitive It's not good for you to be too relaxed.

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work Verb

— If you work, you do a job, usually for money. My father works at Microsoft. I got to work at 7:30 each morning. — If you work you are doing something that needs effort. I worked on my school paper all night long. — If somethings works it has done what it was supposed to do. If my computer didn't work I couldn't type this. I'm glad our plan worked. — How something works is how it does what it does. I would like to know more about how cars work. The rules here just do not work that way.

work Noun

— Your work is your job. — Work is effort it takes to do something. That is, its what makes you tired when you do something hard. Moving heavy logs takes a lot of work. — Work is force through a distance (force times distance). This is how much energy you used to move something. — A work is the product of something, the result of working on it. That is, its something someone has made. The painting was a great work of art. Shakespeare wrote many literary works.

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and Conjunction

— You use and to talk about two things at once. I like singing and reading. Mary and Jane went on a holiday together. — You use and when you are listing a few things and you are now on your last item of the list. I like singing, reading, cycling and playing soccer. I used to like this girl from my class as she is pretty, gentle and caring. — And is used when you are putting two sentences together. She came into the store, shouted at the cashier, and left. — Used to show what happened after something else. The alarm went off and I woke up. — And is used to join certain numbers together. Two hundred and thirty-five people went missing after the earthquake.

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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.

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