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 |
| industrial arts | a course in the methods of using tools and machinery as taught in secondary schools and technical schools |
industrialization
industrialisation
industrial enterprise | the development of industry on an extensive scale |
| industrial watercourse | a canal that is operated by one or more industries |
labor camp
labour camp | a penal institution for political prisoners who are used as forced labor |
| plant works industrial plant | buildings for carrying on industrial labor, they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles |
| bargaining chip | leverage in the form of an inducement or a concession useful in successful negotiations |
industrial engineering
industrial management | the branch of engineering that deals with the creation and management of systems that integrate people and materials and energy in productive ways |
applied psychology
industrial psychology | any of several branches of psychology that seek to apply psychological principles to practical problems of education or industry or marketing etc. |
| collective noun | a noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things |
labor contract
labor agreement
collective agreement | contract between labor and management governing wages and benefits and working conditions |
plea bargain
plea bargaining | (criminal law) a negotiation in which the defendant agrees to enter a plea of guilty to a lesser charge and the prosecutor agrees to drop a more serious charge, his admission was part of a plea bargain with the prosecutor, plea bargaining helps to stop the courts becoming congested |
Dow Jones
Dow-Jones Industrial Average | an indicator of stock market prices, based on the share values ofbluehip stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is the most widely cited indicator of how the stock market is doing |
| bargaining | the negotiation of the terms of a transaction or agreement |
| collective bargaining | negotiation between an employer and trade union |
public relations
PR | a promotion intended to create goodwill for a person or institution |
| military-industrial complex | a country's military establishment and the industries that produce arms and other military equipment, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex--Dwight David Eisenhower |
| collective | members of a cooperative enterprise |
| collective farm | a farm operated collectively |
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB | an independent agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor unions |
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 |
industrial union
vertical union | a labor union that admits all workers in a given industry irrespective of their craft |
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
AFL-CIO | the largest federation of North American labor unions, formed in |
Congress of Industrial Organizations
CIO | a federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in |
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 |
family court
domestic relations court
court of domestic relations | a court in some states in the United States that has jurisdiction over family disputes (especially those involving children) |
International Relations and Security Network
ISN | Switzerland's information network for security and defense studies and for peace and conflict research and for international relations |
industrial bank
industrial loan company | a finance company that makes small loans to industrial workers |
Industrial Workers of the World
IWW
I.W.W. | a former international labor union and radical labor movement in the United States, founded in Chicago inand dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism, its membership declined after World War I |
| industrial park | a tract of land at a distance from city center that is designed for a cluster of businesses and factories |
press agent
publicity man
public relations man
PR man | someone employed to arrange publicity (for a firm or a public figure) |
| public relations person | a person employed to establish and promote a favorable relationship with the public |
| industrial process | a systematic series of mechanical or chemical operations that produce or manufacture something |
relations
dealings | mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups |
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 |
occupational disease
industrial disease | disease or disability resulting from conditions of employment (usually from long exposure to a noxious substance or from continuous repetition of certain acts) |
birth pangs
labor pains
labour pains | a regularly recurrent spasm of pain that is characteristic of childbirth |
| industrial air pollution | pollution resulting from an industrial plant discharging pollutants into the atmosphere |
| collective security | a system for international peace |
toxic waste
toxic industrial waste | poisonous waste materials, can cause injury (especially by chemical means) |
Industrial Revolution
technological revolution | the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation |
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 |
| collective | set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government, collective farms |