bonded labour

collocation in English

meaningsofbondedandlabour

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bonded
adjective
uk
/ˈbɒn.dɪd/us
/ˈbɑːn.dɪd/
chemistryspecialized
involving or held together by chemical bonds (= ...
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labour
noun
uk
/ˈleɪ.bər/us
/ˈleɪ.bɚ/
practical work, especially when it involves hard ...
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(Definition ofbondedandlabourfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This process of asset transfer, looting and self-liquidation, like that of debt andbondedlabour, is intimately connected with the logic and operation of aid.
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We will help to ensure that the new convention makes a vital contribution to eliminating the most abhorrent forms of child labour, includingbondedlabour.
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Its common practice worldwide for employers to give employees salary advances, and that should not necessarily be considered asbondedlabour.
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These includebondedlabour, forced labour and child labour.
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This has strong focus on issues such asbondedlabourand other forms of forced labour.
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But in the case of the landlord, as he is called, in relation tobondedlabour, he has no such responsibility.
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We are deeply concerned by all forms ofbondedlabour.
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Bondedlabourcertainly is servitude and in many ways it is worse.
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But in the case ofbondedlabour, you are up against a whole series, a whole complex, of economic and political considerations.
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Please take advantage of the consensus which now exists between the political parties on the issue ofbondedlabour.
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We do not accept that this type of employment amounts tobondedlabour.
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Many of the worst instances ofbondedlabourare found in poorer countries.
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There is still muchbondedlabour; people go into debt and therefore work for nothing and their children work for nothing.
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We are deeply concerned by all cases ofbondedlabour.
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Poverty and the exploitation of desperation are at the heart ofbondedlabour.
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