physical labour
collocation in Englishmeaningsofphysicalandlabour
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physical
adjective
uk/ˈfɪz.ɪ.kəl/us/ˈfɪz.ɪ.kəl/
relating to ...
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labour
noun
uk/ˈleɪ.bər/us/ˈleɪ.bɚ/
practical work, especially when it involves hard ...
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(Definition ofphysicalandlabourfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofphysical labour
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Allphysicallabourwas considered permanently unskilled.
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The capacity for hardphysicallabourdeclines fastest, but this is little needed in modern economies.
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They were obliged to offerphysicallabouror textiles as a substitute for labour to their masters.
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Furthermore, in a setting where basic numeracy and literacy levels are low,physicallabouravailability is key.
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Most people who are not themselves singers fail to appreciate the extraordinaryphysicallabourand tension required to produce an operatic sound.
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They have been created on the basis of family links or loyalties, as well as comparable financial resources andphysicallabour.
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This decline is probably due to the continuing effect of malnutrition throughout life, combined with the effects of hardphysicallabourand untreated disease.
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They merely wanted "hands",physicallabourwithin their factory.
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It is not merely rest fromphysicallabour.
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Rather than use the time freed to them for more leisure, however, it is consumed by unpaid work of a mental and emotional nature rather thanphysicallabour.
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They have failed to eradicate the belief thatphysicallabouris socially degrading.
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She must constantly be in attendance and engage in heavyphysicallabour.
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They are feeling the strain of long hours of heavyphysicallabour.
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Some can only make baskets, while other make roads, or do other hardphysicallabour.
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Authorizing women to engage inphysicallabour, aesthetic debate, and technological innovation, texts build towards a new vision of the social arrangement in which flowers sanctify and women act.
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She will not work extraordinary hours or have the sheer hardphysicallabourwhich goes into nursing.
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Finns were usually hired to perform heavyphysicallabour.
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Many of them, unused tophysicallabour, die.
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Two weeks without benefit or even four weeks, are not likely to leave one in a fit state to take on heavyphysicallabour.
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Surely it is possible in this age to make changes in the hardphysicallabourwhich has to be carried out.
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Since the 1930s more and more manual processes involvingphysicallabourhave been replaced by electric, petrol or diesel driven motors.
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What is gained in respect of hardphysicallabouris often lost in the form of insidious dangers to the miner himself.
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Traditionally over the centuries this young male aggression has been siphoned off by periodic wars combined with hardphysicallabourin the intervals of peace.
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