Слово англійською: labour

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Переклад labour українською: пра́ця, труд, робо́ча си́ла, розпо́діл пра́ці, ка́торга, родиво

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labour

noun
/ˈleɪbər/
(US English labor)

    work

  1. [uncountable] work, especially physical work
    • manual labour (= work using your hands)
    • The price will include the labour and materials.
    • The company wants to keep down labour costs.
    • The workers voted to withdraw their labour (= to stop work as a means of protest).
    see also bonded labour, division of labour, forced labour, hard labour, slave labour
  2. [countable, usually plural] (formal) a task or period of work
    • He was so exhausted from the day's labours that he went straight to bed.
    • People look forward to enjoying the fruits of their labours during retirement.
    3.

    people who work

  3. [uncountable] the people who work or are available for work in a country or company
    • forced/slave labour
    • a shortage of labour
    • Companies are making huge profits by exploiting cheap labour in poor countries.
    • There is a growing demand for skilled labour.
    • New labour laws make it more difficult for employers to sack workers.
    • good labour relations (= the relationship between workers and employers)
    see also child labour, forced labour, slave labour
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    • capacity
    • industry
    • just-in-time
    • labour
    • lead time
    • output
    • raw material
    • shipping
    • supply chain
    • warehouse
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    • ballot
    • closed shop
    • collective bargaining
    • industrial action
    • labour
    • picket
    • protest
    • representative
    • strike
    • union
    4.

    having baby

  4. [uncountable, countable, usually singular] the period of time or the process of giving birth to a baby
    • in labour Jane was in labour for ten hours.
    • She went into labour early.
    • labour pains
    • It was a difficult labour.
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    • birth
    • breech birth
    • caesarean section
    • contraction
    • deliver
    • induce
    • labour
    • midwife
    • obstetrics
    • umbilical cord
    5.

    politics

  5. Labour
     [uncountable + singular or plural verb]
    (abbreviation Lab.)
    the British Labour Party
    • He always votes Labour.
    • Labour was/were in power for many years.
    6. Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French labour (noun), labourer (verb), both from Latin labor ‘toil, trouble’.
Idioms
a labour of love
  1. a hard task that you do because you want to, not because it is necessary
    • Writing the book was a labour of love.
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