Labor

[ US /ˈɫeɪbɝ/ ]
[ UK /lˈe‍ɪbɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913
  2. a political party formed in Great Britain in 1900; characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries
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How To Use Labor In A Sentence

  • Equally badly behaved, but a little calmer and better informed, were the massive numbers from the labor unions.
  • The result of such rack-rent can only be evil, —abuse and neglect of the soil, deterioration in the character of the laborers, and a widespread sense of injustice. VIII. Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece.
  • There are a lot of counterarguments to using more labor in China.
  • But Ms. Economy pointed to the elaborateness of concept and coordination of details — "the flowers are matching," she observed — leading her to suspect they may have had professional help bringing the Halloween spirit alive. Suburban Tricks, Urban Treats
  • (12 May 2006) - Three years in the business might seem like a too-brief span for a retrospective, but since 2003, Washington D. C.-based quartet the Fort Knox Five founded their own record label (called Fort Knox Recordings), remixed the likes of Tito Puente, Louis Armstrong, And Tower of Power, and collaborated with hip hop's elder statesman Africa Bambaataa-not to mention all the bodies they've got moving on the ... Cool Hunting
  • A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. Victor Hugo 
  • Employers and business groups contend that a higher minimum wage would saddle them with higher labor costs.
  • Labor economics has become virtually a branch of applied econometrics, with the usual large data sets and headless horsemen running around looking for patterns.
  • The chancellor has declined to alter the co-determination of company decisions exercised by management and labor jointly.
  • The services of the laboratory are offered gratuitously to any scientist or graduate student engaged in research which makes a significant contribution to progress in the fields of science.
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