labor
劳动,工,工作,劳工
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Definitions
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- : productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- : the body of persons engaged in such activity, especially those working for wages.
- : this body of persons considered as a class.
- : physical or mental work, especially of a hard or fatiguing kind; toil.
- : a job or task done or to be done.
- : the physical effort and periodic uterine contractions of childbirth.
- : the interval from the onset of these contractions to childbirth.
- : Also called Labor Department .Informal. the Department of Labor.
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- : to perform labor; exert one's powers of body or mind; work; toil.
- : to strive, as toward a goal; work hard: to labor for peace.
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In just one week out of the last 23—dating all the way back to March—weekly jobless claims have come in above 1 million, adding to the carnage in the labor market.
Investigators found the ZIP code protocol was also on the books at Lovelace’s emergency department, in addition to its labor and delivery and perinatal care units.
One in every two Nigerians in the country’s labor force is either unemployed or underemployed.
Depending who you ask, though, these labor savings don’t quite carry over to cost savings for the final consumer.
They can be put to frequent use without requiring more paid labor hours, they are always compliant, and some can even provide the data to prove that they have scoured every inch assigned.
Expensive day care pushes women out of the labor market while men continue to work outside the home.
Public sector unions have also fractured the labor movement itself.
In Turkey, crime groups in border areas are exploiting the labor of Syrian male refugees who cannot find legitimate employment.
Many more illegal migrants face labor trafficking in Europe as they flee the conflict regions of North Africa and the Middle East.
In the summer of 2014, they both were sentenced to 4-1/2 years in a labor camp.
All over the world the just claims of organized are intermingled with the underground conspiracy of social revolution.