induction of labor | (obstetrics) inducing the childbirth process artificially by administering oxytocin or by puncturing the amniotic sac |
Braxton-Hicks contraction false labor | painless contractions of the muscles of the uterus that continue throughout pregnancy with increasing frequency |
division | the act or process of dividing |
word division hyphenation | division of a word especially at the end of a line on a page |
division partition partitioning segmentation sectionalization sectionalisation | the act of dividing or partitioning, separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart |
Secretary of Labor Labor Secretary | the position of the head of the Department of Labor, the post of Labor Secretary was created in |
Secretary of Commerce and Labor | head of a former executive department created inand divided into two departments in |
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 |
job task chore | a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee, estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars, the job of repairing the engine took several hours, the endless task of classifying the samples, the farmer's morning chores |
undertaking project task labor | any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted, he prepared for great undertakings |
labor of love labour of love | productive work performed voluntarily without material reward or compensation |
division | an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication, the quotient of two numbers is computed |
long division | the operation of division in which the sequence of steps are indicated in detail |
short division | the operation of division in which the sequence of steps is performed without writing them out |
labor market | the market in which workers compete for jobs and employers compete for workers |
division Archaebacteria | in some classifications considered a kingdom |
division Eubacteria | oneelled monerans having simple cells with rigid walls and (in motile types) flagella |
Cyanophyta division Cyanophyta | prokaryotic organisms sometimes considered a class or phylum or subkingdom, coextensive with the Cyanophyceae: cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) |
Schizophyta division Schizophyta | former term for the Cyanophyta |
Protista division Protista | eukaryotic oneelled living organisms distinct from multicellular plants and animals: protozoa, slime molds, and eukaryotic algae |
Heterokontophyta division Heterokontophyta | algae having chlorophyll a and usually c, and flagella of unequal lengths, terminology supersedes Chrysophyta in some classifications |
Chrysophyta division Chrysophyta | mostly freshwater eukaryotic algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown or yellow pigment, yellow-green and golden-brown algae and diatoms: Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae, some classification systems superseded or subsumed by Heterokontophyta |
Phaeophyta division Phaeophyta | coextensive with class Phaeophyceae, in some classifications subsumed in the division Heterokontophyta |
Euglenophyta division Euglenophyta | free-swimming flagellate algae |
Chlorophyta division Chlorophyta | large division of chiefly freshwater eukaryotic algae that possess chlorophyll a and b, store food as starch, and cellulose cell walls, classes Chlorophyceae, Ulvophyceae, and Charophyceae, obviously ancestral to land plants |
Rhodophyta division Rhodophyta | lower plants, mostly marine and littoral eukaryotic algae |
Cynodontia division Cynodontia | a division of the order Therapsida from the Triassic period comprising small carnivorous tetrapod reptiles often with mammal-like teeth |
Dicynodontia division Dicynodontia | a division of Therapsida |
labor camp labour camp | a penal institution for political prisoners who are used as forced labor |
crosslassification cross-division | classification according to more than one attribute at the same time, the crosslassification of cases was done by age and sex |
part section division | one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole, the written part of the exam, the finance section of the company, the BBC's engineering division |
labor contract labor agreement collective agreement | contract between labor and management governing wages and benefits and working conditions |
division variance | discord that splits a group |
Kurdistan Workers Party Kurdistan Labor Pary Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan PPK | a Marxist-Leninist terrorist group of Kurds trying to establish an independent Kurdish state in eastern Turkey |
advertising department advertising division | the division of a business that is responsible for advertising |
sales department sales division sales force | the division of a business that is responsible for selling products or services |
National Labor Relations Board NLRB | an independent agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor unions |
Department of Labor Labor Department Labor DoL | the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States, created in |
Department of Commerce and Labor | a former executive department of the United States government, created inand split into two departments in |
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 force labor pool | the source of trained people from which workers can be hired |
organized labor | employees who are represented by a labor union |
task force | a temporary military unit formed to accomplish a particular objective |
Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division NAWCWPNS | the principal agency of the United States Navy for research and development for air warfare and missile weapon systems |
task force | a semipermanent unit created to carry out a continuing task |
division | an army unit large enough to sustain combat, two infantry divisions were held in reserve |
division naval division | a group of ships of similar type |
division air division | a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings |
division | an administrative unit in government or business |