| 单词 | labour |
| 释义 | labour labour (AmE spelling labor) // noun, verb
■ noun [U]
AGENCY LABOUR, CHILD LABOUR, CONTRACT LABOUR, DIRECT LABOUR, DIVISION OF LABOUR, INDIRECT LABOUR, LUMP OF LABOUR, MOBILITY OF LABOUR, ORGANIZED LABOUR
1 work, especially physical work: The price will include labour and materials. ◆ manual labour (= work using your hands) ◆ (BrE) The workers voted to withdraw their labour (= to stop work as a way of protesting).
2 the people who work or are available for work in a country or a company: a shortage of skilled labour countries with good supplies of raw materials and cheap labour The company wants to keep down labour costs.
■ verb [no obj]
1 to try very hard to do sth difficult or to deal with a difficult problem: He was still labouring away over some papers in his office. The group is labouring under €5 bn of debt.
2 to do hard physical work: They had laboured all day in the fields. |
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