labour shortage
collocation in EnglishmeaningsofLabourandshortage
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labour
noun[+ sing/pl verb]
uk/ˈleɪ.bər/us/ˈleɪ.bɚ/
the Labour Party, the political party in Great Britain that believes in social equality, a more equal sharing out of wealth, and the rights ...
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shortage
noun[C]
uk/ˈʃɔː.tɪdʒ/us/ˈʃɔːr.t̬ɪdʒ/
a situation in which there is not enough ...
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(Definition oflabourandshortagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Rather, alabourshortagewas holding back further expansion of the rubber, palm oil and timber export industries.
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It often meant irrecoverable debts and an immediatelabourshortage.
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It can be inferred that the employer anticipated anotherlabourshortageor that the childbirths in 1900 and 1901 necessitated more workers.
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The point of this system was not meetinglabourshortage.
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Nolabourshortageon the family farm was likely since the two co-residing couples could work together.
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An ageing society would typically give rise tolabourshortage, which would tend to raise the wage rate.
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Between 1850 and 1900, landowners criedlabourshortageat every opportunity.
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Consequently, the family encountered alabourshortagefrom 1896 to 1897.
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In addition, the rice is harvested in a period of relativelabourshortageand there is pressure for the next cultivation.
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We had military conscription and the direction of labour-and a severelabourshortagein most essential industries.
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By the late 1830s there was a criticallabourshortageas transportation of convicts tailed off.
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This was a somewhat novel idea in a country where land surplus andlabourshortagehad linked land and labour in the institution of serfdom.
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They consolidated their hold over the labourers, maximised their profits and used times oflabourshortage to blackmail the planters and to extract exaggerated advances.
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Where there is alabourshortage, of course, decent housing can attract and keep workers.
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Famines in the late eighteenth century, however, caused a widespreadlabourshortageand the extinction of hard-hit family households, resulting in the abandonment of much agricultural land.
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However, the family encountered alabourshortage.
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A 30 % increase in labour costs, reflecting a possiblelabourshortage, reduced the net benefit of the legume-maize rotations more strongly than that of sole maize systems.
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The recruitment function, however, carried on, and employers depended on the jobber heavily during episodes oflabourshortage.
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Nevertheless, the family encountered alabourshortage.
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Schreyger acknowledges the use of force to recruit settlers for the project but does not address the issue of overalllabourshortage.
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