stratified sampling representative sampling proportional sampling | the population is divided into subpopulations (strata) and random samples are taken of each stratum |
labor labour toil | productive work (especially physical work done for wages), his labor did not require a great deal of skill |
manual labor manual labour | labor done with the hands |
labor of love labour of love | productive work performed voluntarily without material reward or compensation |
labor camp labour camp | a penal institution for political prisoners who are used as forced labor |
example illustration instance representative | an item of information that is typical of a class or group, this patient provides a typical example of the syndrome, there is an example on page |
stratified sample representative sample proportional sample | the population is divided into strata and a random sample is taken from each stratum |
United States Trade Representative US Trade Representative | the executive agency that administers the President's policies on international trade |
labor labour working class proletariat | a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages, there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field |
labor party labour party | a left-ofenter political party formed to represent the interest of ordinary working people |
British Labour Party Labour Party Labour Labor | a political party formed in Great Britain in , characterized by the promotion of labor's interests and formerly the socialization of key industries |
International Labor Organization International Labour Organization ILO | the United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor |
account executive account representative registered representative customer's broker customer's man | someone in charge of a client's account for an advertising agency or brokerage or other service business |
congressman congresswoman representative | a member of the United States House of Representatives |
legal representative | a personal representative with legal standing (as by power of attorney or the executor of a will) |
personal representative | a person who manages the affairs of another |
representative | a person who represents others |
salesperson sales representative sales rep | a person employed to represent a business and to sell its merchandise (as to customers in a store or to customers who are visited) |
spokesperson interpreter representative voice | an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose, the meeting was attended by spokespersons for all the major organs of government |
union representative | a representative for a labor union |
premature labor premature labour | labor beginning prior to the th week of gestation |
parturiency labor labour confinement lying-in travail childbed | concluding state of pregnancy, from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child, she was in labor for six hours |
birth pangs labor pains labour pains | a regularly recurrent spasm of pain that is characteristic of childbirth |
labor labour | undergo the efforts of childbirth |
tug labor labour push drive | strive and make an effort to reach a goal, She tugged for years to make a decent living, We have to push a little to make the deadline!, She is driving away at her doctoral thesis |
labor labour toil fag travail grind drudge dig moil | work hard, She was digging away at her math homework, Lexicographers drudge all day long |
representative | being or characteristic of government by representation in which citizens exercise power through elected officers and representatives, representative government as defined by Abraham Lincoln is government of the people, by the people, for the people |
labor-intensive labour-intensive | requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital, cottage industries are labor intensive |
representative | standing for something else, the bald eagle is representative of the United States |
representative | serving to represent or typify, representative moviegoers, a representative modern play |