( 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.