laboring
劳动,劳动的,劳动者,劳动强度
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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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Examples
If companies are found to have used forced labor from the region, they could be prosecuted for securities violations.
You see, if it wasn’t for child labor, I don’t know if I’d be here.
More than 300 captive people labored there as both skilled and unskilled workers.
In New Bedford, Massachusetts, an indigenous Guatemalan labor leader has heard complaints from adult workers in the fish-packing industry who say they’re losing their jobs to 14-year-olds.
The company claims up to a 95-percent reduction in labor required to construct its prefab homes, which would free up those contractors to build more.
Rescue workers had been laboring at ground zero every hour since the disaster.
The key for Santorum is being able to rebuild the supporter infrastructure that he spent so much time laboring to create in 2012.
Bartilla is laboring with an immediate crisis with basic services.
Ruettiger struggled to even get admitted to Notre Dame, laboring through junior college where he was diagnosed as dyslexic.
The U.S. military, meanwhile, it seemed to me was laboring under an entirely different misapprehension.
It now became evident, even to the infatuated Gray, that Mrs. Irvin was laboring under the influence of tremendous excitement.
"Laboring People" followed in 1881, when Kielland sold out his business and became purely a man of letters.