LABOUR


Meaning of LABOUR in English

( BrE ) ( AmE labor ) noun

1 work

ADJECTIVE

▪ manual , physical

▪ back-breaking , forced , hard

He was sentenced to four years hard ~ for his crime.

▪ productive , unproductive

▪ unpaid

VERB + LABOUR/LABOR

▪ withdraw

The miners are threatening to withdraw their ~.

LABOUR/LABOR + NOUN

▪ productivity

▪ camp

Dissidents were forced to work in ~ 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 ~.

▪ prison

▪ farm

▪ sweatshop

LABOUR/LABOR + NOUN

▪ force

the size of the ~ force

▪ market , pool , supply

an increasingly competitive ~ market

▪ shortage

▪ cost , costs

▪ movement

tensions between the ~ movement and government

▪ organization

▪ activist , leader

▪ relations

▪ dispute

▪ law

3 giving birth

ADJECTIVE

▪ difficult , easy

▪ long , short

The baby was born after a long ~.

▪ preterm

women at risk of preterm ~

VERB + LABOUR/LABOR

▪ go into

She went into ~ two weeks early.

▪ induce

Labour was induced when the baby was ten days overdue.

LABOUR/LABOR + NOUN

▪ room , ward ( BrE )

▪ pains

PREPOSITION

▪ in ~

She was in ~ for ten hours.

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