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{
"term": "labour",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "work, especially physical work",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "**manual labour** *(= work using your hands)*"
},
{
"text": "The price will include the labour and materials."
},
{
"text": "The company wants to keep down **labour costs**."
},
{
"text": "The workers voted to **withdraw their labour** *(= to stop work as a means of protest)*."
},
{
"text": "The miners are threatening to withdraw their labour."
},
{
"text": "These women were generally accustomed to hard manual labour."
}
],
"topics": ["Business"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["manual", "physical", "back-breaking"],
"verb + labour/labor": ["withdraw"],
"labour/labor + noun": ["productivity", "camp"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a task or period of work",
"labels": "(formal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He was so exhausted from the day's labours that he went straight to bed."
},
{
"text": "People look forward to enjoying **the fruits of their labours** during retirement."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["manual", "physical", "back-breaking"],
"verb + labour/labor": ["withdraw"],
"labour/labor + noun": ["productivity", "camp"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "the people who work or are available for work in a country or company",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "**forced/slave labour**"
},
{
"text": "a shortage of labour"
},
{
"text": "Companies are making huge profits by exploiting **cheap labour** in poor countries."
},
{
"text": "There is a growing demand for **skilled labour**."
},
{
"text": "New **labour laws** make it more difficult for employers to sack workers."
},
{
"text": "good **labour relations** *(= the relationship between workers and employers)*"
},
{
"text": "The sector is reliant on migrant labour."
},
{
"text": "Repairs involve skilled labour, which can be expensive."
},
{
"text": "tensions between the labour movement and government"
}
],
"topics": ["Working life"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["free", "organized", "wage"],
"labour/labor + noun": ["force", "market", "pool"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "the period of time or the process of giving birth to a baby",
"sensetop": "in labour",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Jane was in labour for ten hours.",
"contextForm": "in labour"
},
{
"text": "She **went into labour** early."
},
{
"text": "labour pains"
},
{
"text": "It was a difficult labour."
},
{
"text": "Older women tend to have more difficult labours."
},
{
"text": "She went into labour two weeks early."
},
{
"text": "The baby was born after a long labour."
},
{
"text": "women at risk of preterm labour"
},
{
"text": "Labour was induced when the baby was ten days overdue."
}
],
"topics": ["Life stages"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["difficult", "easy", "long"],
"verb + labour/labor": ["go into", "induce"],
"labour/labor + noun": ["room", "ward", "pains"],
"preposition": ["in labour"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "the British Labour Party",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He always votes Labour."
},
{
"text": "Labour was/were in power for many years."
}
],
"topics": ["Politics"]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "a hard task that you do because you want to, not because it is necessary",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Writing the book was a labour of love."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈleɪbə(r)/",
"audio": "la/labour/labour__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈleɪbər/",
"audio": "la/labour/labour__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French labour (noun), labourer (verb), both from Latin labor ‘toil, trouble’."
}