immigrant labour
collocation in Englishmeaningsofimmigrantandlabour
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immigrant
noun[C]
uk/ˈɪm.ɪ.ɡrənt/us/ˈɪm.ə.ɡrənt/
a person who has come to a different country in order to live ...
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labour
noun
uk/ˈleɪ.bər/us/ˈleɪ.bɚ/
practical work, especially when it involves hard ...
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(Definition ofimmigrantandlabourfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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And yet we managed withoutimmigrantlabour.
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Rich countries operate immigration restrictions, which depress national wealth, but protect the position of those who would be undercut byimmigrantlabour.
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Prosperity rises in those countries which have a largeimmigrantlabourforce.
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The second involvesimmigrantlabourand the mobility of the labour force.
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We could not run the economy without someimmigrantlabourfrom some- where.
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He also stated that countries which had usedimmigrantlabourskilfully had made rapid economic growth.
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Industrially, we require all the labour which is coming in asimmigrantlabour.
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We are now doing something that was inconceivable 20 years ago—importingimmigrantlabour.
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It is the result, first and foremost, of the ghettoisation and exploitation ofimmigrantlabour.
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For this purpose we may need to attract someimmigrantlabourto work in these units.
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In view of scarcity prevailing in neighbouring districts steps were taken to segregateimmigrantlabourin special camps, etc.
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In banks, for example, and among other white collar employers reasons are often found for not taking onimmigrantlabour.
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When there was a free-for-all, much of the public service had to rely heavily onimmigrantlabour.
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We must vet social security registers and have more checks on employers suspected of employing illegalimmigrantlabour.
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The work on the hostel for temporaryimmigrantlabouris well under way and should be completed quite soon, early this year.
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Are we really to say that our condition is such that our economy can only be run by a continuous inflow of newimmigrantlabour?
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The economy displays a lack of economic diversification and significant reliance onimmigrantlabour.
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It is that we cannot build the houses or the roads that we need to get this dispersal, this acceptance of the immigrant population, withoutimmigrantlabour.
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They have missed a great opportunity, because, if they had stuck to the rules of capitalist economics, they would have welcomed all the cheapimmigrantlabourthey could get.
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The village continued to grow with terraced houses and allotments erected for the flood ofimmigrantlabourneeded to work the mines.
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