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labor | American Dictionary

labor
noun[ U ]
(CdnBrlabour)us/ˈleɪ·bər/

labornoun[U] (WORK)

practical work, esp. work that involves physical effort:
The car parts themselves are not expensive – it’s the labor that costs so much.
Labor also refers to the workers themselves, esp. those who do practical work with their hands:
skilled/unskilled labor
 labor-saving
A labor-saving device or method is one that saves a lot of effort and time.

labornoun[U] (BIRTH)

the last stage of pregnancy when the muscles of the uterus start to push the baby out of the body, usually lasting until the baby appears:
She went into (= started) labor at twelve o’clock last night.
labor
verb[ I ]
(CdnBrlabour)us/ˈleɪ·bər/

laborverb[I] (WORK)

to do hard physical work:
[ + to infinitive ]Hours after the explosion, rescue teams were still laboring to free those trapped.

labor | Business English

labor
noun[ U ]
 HR USuk /ˈleɪbər/us
→ labour

Examples of labor

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We also make the assumption that there is unemployment and therefore no extra cost for recruiting labor.
Thus, direct or tacit pronatalism survived because of historically specific, regional demands for labor.
Despite the inefficiency, labor services could have survived under previous regimes because of path-dependence.
In short, technical change in lowland areas has significantly increased demand for labor on lowland farms.
Unlike the case of tree planting, however, fallowing of food crop fields does not require labor effort and, hence, tends to weaken land rights.
However, most studies of hand skill tested performance on unimanual tasks that have a clear division of labor between the hands.
Thus, an income tax (on both labor and capital income) is used to cover the debt repayment.
First, the accumulation of past idiosyncratic exogenous total factor productivity shocks enhances the labor-augmenting technology and has a positive permanent impact on labor efficiency.
The prices on each activity depended more on a billing structure than the true labor and material that comprised the activity.
A cultural study of market society - a nonreductionist study - would see people as both producers and consumers, born of labor and desire.
Within agriculture, persistent labor abundance has favored annual crops, which are relatively labor intensive, and vegetables in particular.
This point is demonstrated using an equilibrium business cycle model featuring heterogeneous households, endogenous labor supply and liquidity constraints.
Expression of connexin-43 and connexin-26 in the rat myometrium during pregnancy and labor is differentially regulated by mechanical and hormonal signals.
Thus, it does not appear that over time, social democratic labor market institutions have significantly been dismantled.
Soon after, yield must have become a primary objective as greater yield would have substantially reduced the labor input and land needs.
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