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 |
| intensive care | close monitoring and constant medical care of patients with life-threatening conditions |
labor of love
labour of love | productive work performed voluntarily without material reward or compensation |
technology
engineering | the practical application of science to commerce or industry |
automotive technology
automotive engineering | the activity of designing and constructing automobiles |
| communications technology | the activity of designing and constructing and maintaining communication systems |
| digital communications technology | the design and construction of communications technology that transmits information in digital form |
| computer technology | the activity of designing and constructing and programming computers |
high technology
high tech | highly advanced technological development (especially in electronics) |
rail technology
railroading | the activity of designing and constructing and operating railroads |
labor camp
labour camp | a penal institution for political prisoners who are used as forced labor |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT | an engineering university in Cambridge |
engineering
engineering science
applied science
technology | the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems, he had trouble deciding which branch of engineering to study |
genetic engineering
gene-splicing
recombinant DNA technology | the technology of preparing recombinant DNA in vitro by cutting up DNA molecules and splicing together fragments from more than one organism |
information technology
IT | the branch of engineering that deals with the use of computers and telecommunications to retrieve and store and transmit information |
natural language processing
NLP
human language technology | the branch of information science that deals with natural language information |
intensifier
intensive r | a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies, `up' in `finished up' is an intensifier, `honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier |
| Technology Administration | an agency in the Department of Commerce that works with United States industries to promote competitiveness and maximize the impact of technology on economic growth |
National Institute of Standards and Technology
NIST | an agency in the Technology Administration that makes measurements and sets standards as needed by industry or government programs |
neonatal intensive care unit
NICU | an intensive care unit designed with special equipment to care for premature or seriously ill newborn |
intensive care unit
ICU | a hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care |
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 |
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 |
labor-intensive
labour-intensive | requiring a large expenditure of labor but not much capital, cottage industries are labor intensive |
| intensive | characterized by a high degree or intensity, often used as a combining form, the questioning was intensive, intensive care, research-intensive, a labor-intensive industry |
| intensive | of agriculture, intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor, intensive agriculture, intensive conditions |
| intensive | tending to give force or emphasis, an intensive adverb |