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labour

/ley-ber/US // ˈleɪ bər //UK // (ˈleɪbə) //

劳动,劳工,劳动力,工作

Definitions

  1. 1

    Chiefly British.

    • : labor.

Examples

  • Unless gender discrimination in the labour market is addressed systematically, choosing to have three children will have a detrimental effect on women’s employment trajectory.

  • But, labour markets were not ready for this six-million surge in labour.

  • Governments and business need to work together, investing in reskilling and upskilling programmes to provide students and workers with the tools they need for rapidly shifting labour markets.

  • They were finally accepted by a Labour Home Secretary, Roy Jenkins, in 1967.

  • A senior Labour Party MP scoffed at what he suggested was faulty logic.

  • The middle classes,” Satyarthi once told the BBC, want “cheap, docile labour.

  • You take away Scotland, you take a major base of Labour strength.

  • So a Scottish secession need not prevent Labour from winning in a reduced UK.

  • Great was the surprise of Alf at the honour and labour thus thrust upon him, but he did not shrink from it.

  • Michael Allcroft returned to his duties, tuned for labour, full of courage, and the spirit of enterprise and action.

  • Here again we have the landscape of Lorraine and the eternal and infinitely varied theme of rural labour.

  • This would reduce the available time for direct manual labour at his disposal.

  • Before she was in labour, she brought forth; before her time came to be delivered, she brought forth a man child.