Phrase Hound found 69 phrases and 33 compound words that contain labor. The most common are listed below. Open labor in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 69
- labor marketThe market consisting of the supply of unemployed workers in relation to the demand for them.
- forced laborWork which one is compelled to perform against one's will, especially in a condition of involuntary servitude as a prisoner or slave.
- labor forceAlternative spelling of labour force: The collective group of people who are available for employment, whether currently employed or unemployed (though sometimes only those unemployed people who are seeking work are included).
- labor-intensiveRequiring a great deal of work, especially physical and manual effort versus capital.
- subject of laborEverything to which human labor is applied.
- manual laborWork done by hand or using basic tools rather than by machines; usually physically demanding but (sometimes derogatory) unskilled labor.
- means of laborAll those things with the aid of which man acts upon the subject of his labor, and transforms it.
- division of laborUS standard form of division of labour.
- labor of loveA task performed voluntarily without expectation of reimbursement or practical benefit; an altruistic work or undertaking; an action or hobby performed purely out of an inner desire to do so.
- child laborAlternative spelling of child labour: Work performed by a minor that is prohibited by statute law, or under terms and conditions considered inhumane (for example, long hours, age-inappropriate, physically demanding).
- labor unionsplural of labor union: A continuous association of wage-earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment; a trade union.
- Labor costs
- Labor PartyA political organization representing labor.
- labor lawAlternative spelling of labour law: The body of statute law that regulates the relationship between employer, employee, labour union and government.
- labor relationsindustrial relations
- labor marketsplural of labor market: The market consisting of the supply of unemployed workers in relation to the demand for them.
- labor unionA continuous association of wage-earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment; a trade union.
- day laborWork done where the worker is hired and paid one day at a time, with no promise that more work will be available in the future.
- hard laborForced servitude in the form of physically difficult labor, usually as a penal punishment.
- labor painAlternative form of labour pain: The pain suffered by a woman in labour during childbirth.
- Labor Movement
- slave laborAlternative form of slave labour: Using slaves to do work
- Labor organization
- Labor Laws
- Labor DayThe holiday marking the unofficial end of summer, held on the first Monday in September.
Compound words 33
- belaborUS spelling of belabour.
- microlaborA type of employment characterized by short-term or piecework jobs that are part of a larger project in which the worker is not involved.
- nonlaborNot of pertaining to labor.
- laborloreFolk elements of the lives of workers.
- playborA hybrid form of play and labour, specifically in the games industry.
- laborishCharacteristic of a labour political party.
- laborlessNot laborious; not requiring labor; easy.
- overlaborAlternative form of overlabour: Excessive labour.
- prelaborPrior to the labor of childbirth.
- prolaborAlternative form of prolabour: Supporting or favouring workers.