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 |
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA | an agreement for free trade between the United States and Canada and Mexico, became effective in for ten years |
labor camp labour camp | a penal institution for political prisoners who are used as forced labor |
agreement correspondence | compatibility of observations, there was no agreement between theory and measurement, the results of two tests were in correspondence |
agreement arrangement | the thing arranged or agreed to, they made arrangements to meet in Chicago |
collective noun | a noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things |
purchase contract purchase agreement | a contract stating the terms of a purchase |
fair-trade agreement | an agreement (illegal in the United States) between the manufacturer of a trademarked item of merchandise and its retail distributors to sell the item at a price at or above the price set by the manufacturer |
articles of agreement shipping articles | a contract between crew and captain of a ship |
labor contract labor agreement collective agreement | contract between labor and management governing wages and benefits and working conditions |
employment contract employment agreement | contract between employer and employee |
distribution agreement | a contract governing the marketing of an item of merchandise |
licensing agreement | contract giving someone the legal right to use a patent or trademark |
merger agreement acquisition agreement | contract governing the merger of two or more companies |
sale sales agreement | an agreement (or contract) in which property is transferred from the seller (vendor) to the buyer (vendee) for a fixed price in money (paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer), the salesman faxed the sales agreement to his home office |
agreement understanding | the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises, they had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's business, there was an understanding between management and the workers |
working agreement | an informal agreement to work together |
gentlemen's agreement | a personal agreement based on honor and not legally binding |
written agreement | a legal document summarizing the agreement between parties |
collective bargaining | negotiation between an employer and trade union |
agreement | the verbal act of agreeing |
severance agreement | an agreement on the terms on which an employee will leave |
collective | members of a cooperative enterprise |
collective farm | a farm operated collectively |
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 |
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GATT | a United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas |
International Labor Organization International Labour Organization ILO | the United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor |
agreement concord | the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations |
number agreement | agreement in number between words in the same grammatical construction (e.g., between adjectives and the nouns they modify) |
person agreement | agreement in person between pronouns and verbs |
case agreement | agreement in grammatical case between words in the same construction |
gender agreement | agreement in grammatical gender between words in the same construction |
agreement accord | harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters, the two parties were in agreement |
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 |
collective security | a system for international peace |
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 |
collective | forming a whole or aggregate |
labor-intensive labour-intensive | requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital, cottage industries are labor intensive |
corporate collective | done by or characteristic of individuals acting together, a joint identity, the collective mind, the corporate good |
agreed in agreement(p) | united by being of the same opinion, agreed in their distrust of authority |