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11Labor Ready — Infobox Company company company name = Labor Ready, Inc.| industry = Employment Services company type = public (NYSE: [http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/lcddata.html?ticker=TBI TBI] ) foundation = Kent, Washington 1989 location = Tacoma,… …
12labor — I noun 1. a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages (Freq. 20) there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field • Syn: ↑labour, ↑working class, ↑proletariat • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …
13labor — la|bor1 [ leıbər ] noun *** 1. ) uncount all the workers in a particular country, industry, or company considered as a group: the declining demand for labor in agriculture a plentiful supply of cheap labor skilled/unskilled labor: The demand for… …
14labor — 01. My wife was in [labor] for 10 hours before finally giving birth to our twin girls. 02. The [labor] of weeding the garden was too much for his weak back. 03. Her grandfather [labored] in the coal mines for over 40 years before dying of lung… …
15labor — laboringly, adv. laborless, adj. /lay beuhr/, n. 1. productive activity, esp. for the sake of economic gain. 2. the body of persons engaged in such activity, esp. those working for wages. 3. this body of persons considered as a class… …
16labor — la•bor [[t]ˈleɪ bər[/t]] n. 1) productive activity, esp. for the sake of economic gain 2) the body of persons engaged in such activity, esp. those working for wages 3) this body of persons considered as a class (distinguished from management). 4) …
17labor — a labor of love easy false labor hard menial migrant organized painstaking performlabor physical productive prolonged protracted seasonal …
18labor — n 1. work, employment, job, occupation, living, livelihood, means of support. 2. toil, travail, sweat of one s brow, moil, drudgery, grind, menial work; hard work or toil, hard labor, slavery; exertion, effort, strain, struggle, laboriousness,… …
19labor relations acts — The statutes, state and federal, which purport to regulate the relation between capital and labor for the purpose of avoiding industrial disputes and strikes. The National Labor Relations Act, known as the Wagner Act, of 1935 and the Labor… …
20Labor history of the United States — involves the history of organized labor, as well as the more general history of working people in the United States of America. Pressures dictating the nature and power of organized labor have included the evolution and power of the corporation,… …
