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unpaid labour

collocation in English

meanings of unpaidand labour


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unpaid
adjective
uk /ʌnˈpeɪd/ us /ʌnˈpeɪd/
An unpaid debt, tax, etc. has not ...
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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 unpaid labour


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An additional relevant consideration is the demand for and supply of paid and unpaidlabour.
Even those who supplied unpaidlabour must have been aware that it assisted in settling debts.
The latter also considers the unpaidlabour undertaken by women, recognising that housework is actually work (p. 147).
Women from poor farming households provide unpaidlabour and suffer the drudgery of hand weeding to obtain higher yields.
In the economy of the performance, the scene showed that the young men are forced to perform unpaidlabour, which they do not do wholeheartedly.
Creoles were interested in taking over them because they could exploit the indigenous sector, usurp community lands and demand unpaidlabour.
Men and women beyond retirement age engage in a variety of paid and unpaidlabour but the choices involved are mediated by social location and life history.
The farmer, moreover, has in very many instances been assisted by what is actually unpaidlabour.
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That wealth was the unpaidlabour of the men who made it.
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One was that it was utterly illegal to have compulsory unpaidlabour.
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Markets depend on that unpaidlabour to function at all.
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The financial institutions of this country invested abroad £30,000 million from the unpaidlabour of working people.
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Up to the beginning of this year, licences were not required for houses built by unpaidlabour.
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We have the unpaidlabour of countless thousands of poor men, and we have the rising youth of the land.
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In other forces, there remains an implication that they are unpaidlabour, and the regular officers are slightly stand-offish.
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I fear there are also a great many children forced to do unpaidlabour on building sites, at the risk of their lives.
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The involvement of unpaidlabour in our country's economy is extraordinarily deep, and we certainly could not run for one moment without it.
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I think it is particularly unfortunate that no longer are we to be permitted to disregard the cost of materials used by unpaidlabour.
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This exception only applied to work on private dwellings, and did not allow the use of unpaidlabour on other premises.
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The main point which has been made refers to the unpaidlabour clause 1 would like to say a word or two about that.
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Fourthly, in counting whether such cases come within the £10 limit or not, no assessment is to be made for the value of the unpaidlabour.
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