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 Translation for 'to labour' from English to Finnish
VERB   to labour | laboured | laboured
labouring | labours
SYNO British Labour Party | childbed | confinement | ...
ahkeroidato labour [Br.]
työintensiivinen {adj}labour-intensive [Br.]
ammatitsosiol.
lapsityö {noun}
child labour [Br.]
ammatitsosiol.
lapsityövoima {noun}
child labour [Br.]
pakkotyö {noun}hard labour [Br.]
ammatitekonomia
työvoimapula {noun}
labour shortage [Br.]
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Usage Examples English
  • Hence, industrial growth arrived relatively late – after 1860 – because incentives to move to labour-intensive industry were quite weak.
  • In 1927, he mocked the British Fascists as "black-shirted buffoons, making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers". The ILP elected him to Labour's National Executive Committee.
  • 3% swing from Conservative to Labour, with help from newspapers such as "the Sun" towards which Campbell focused his spinning tactics as he greatly valued their support.
  • The close connection to labour groups and Sylvia's appearance on stage with Frederick Pethick-Lawrence – who also addressed the crowd – convinced Christabel that her sister was organising a group that might challenge the WSPU in the suffrage movement.
  • The third earl (a member of the Conservative Party) retained his seat in the Lords as one of the hereditary peers to remain under an amendment to Labour's House of Lords Act 1999.

  • Towns also became a significant issue in the 2020 Labour Party leadership election, with Lisa Nandy making significant reference to Labour needing to win back smaller towns which have swung away from the party.
  • At the bitter Morecambe Conference in late 1952, Wilson was one of the Bevanites elected as constituency representatives to Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC), whilst senior right-wingers such as Dalton and Herbert Morrison were voted off.
  • The higher costs to labour and capital imposed by income tax causes dead weight loss in an economy, being the loss of economic activity from people deciding not to invest capital or use time productively because of the burden that tax would impose on those activities.
  • Bate in the finest insight on Johnson I know, emphasised that no other writer is so obsessed by the realisation that the mind is an "activity", one that will turn to destructiveness of the self or of others unless it is directed to labour."
  • He sent missionaries, among them the Franciscan John of Monte Corvino, to labour among the Bulgarians, Ethiopians, Mongols, Tatars and Chinese.

  • Formerly a Liberal stronghold, the industrial districts switched to Labour by 1922, with a base among the Irish Catholic working-class districts.
  • A lack of responsiveness of the education system to labour market requirements, disparities in access to quality education, lack of an effective linkage between secondary and tertiary education remain major challenges for the education sector.
  • He reported that Malays had informed him the ape could talk, but preferred not to "lest he be compelled to labour".
  • There are two sides to labour economics. Labour economics can generally be seen as the application of microeconomic or macroeconomic techniques to the labour market.
  • Several of Heseltine's advisers at this time were SDP supporters, and in some cases later defected to Labour; Crick commented (in 1997) that Heseltine's views at this time were very similar to those later advocated by Tony Blair's New Labour.

  • In rare cases, caesarean sections can be used to remove a dead fetus; otherwise, the woman has to labour and deliver a baby known to be a stillbirth.
  • , meaning to "bungle, botch, wreck or sabotage"; it was originally used to refer to labour disputes, in which workers wearing wooden shoes called [...] interrupted production through different means.
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