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imported labour

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meanings of importand labour


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import
noun
uk /ˈɪm.pɔːt/ us /ˈɪm.pɔːrt/
goods bought by one country ...
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labour
noun
uk /ˈleɪ.bər/ us /ˈleɪ.bɚ/
practical work, especially when it involves hard ...
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Examples of imported labour


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Importedlabour usually brings its womenfolk with them into jute and cotton mills but in the majority of cases are not the wives of the men with whom they live.
There is a lack of supervision of the employment of importedlabour in areas where there is prolonged unemployment.
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Secondly, we would not be so dependent on importedlabour.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
If holidays were spread over five or six months of the year, the obtaining of importedlabour would be a very much different proposition.
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Hansard archive

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It is much cheaper to use importedlabour from countries abroad than to invest in the capital machinery needed to step up productivity.
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Hansard archive

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The spread-over of holidays would also affect the position of importedlabour.
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Hansard archive

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It is not work which can be done by strangers or importedlabour.
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Hansard archive

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Quite apart from the fact that this puts the importedlabour force in a worse position than that of the host country, it also contributes to social dumping.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
The importedlabour quota restrictions have also been challenging.
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Wikipedia

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In some cases, oil palm plantations are dependent on importedlabour or illegal immigrants, with some concerns about the employment conditions and social impacts of these practices.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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