skilled labour
collocation in Englishmeaningsofskilledandlabour
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skilled
adjective
uk/skɪld/us/skɪld/
having the abilities needed to do an activity or ...
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labour
noun
uk/ˈleɪ.bər/us/ˈleɪ.bɚ/
practical work, especially when it involves hard ...
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(Definition ofskilledandlabourfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Boys were distinguished from women and children in terms of training theskilledlabourof men.
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In all cases, landowners bought the raw materials and hired theskilledlabour.
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Incinerators require initial high capital investment, and askilledlabourforce to maintain them.
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Sometimes it is simply employing inexperienced or inept workers whenskilledlabouris in short supply.
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Will that beskilledlabour?
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Thereskilledlabourwas employed.
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Skilledlabouris becoming short.
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That is highlyskilledlabour.
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It is not even shortage ofskilledlabourbecauseskilledlabouris slightly easier now than a year ago.
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However, this does require the grammar to be developed by hand, a task that demands much expensive, highlyskilledlabour.
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Generally, however, a shortage ofskilledlabourconstituted a serious constraint on production and export of processed wood.
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The rural relatives contribute arable land, market gardens, residential and non-residential buildings, agricultural machines, and permanent andskilledlabour.
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Skilledlabourfor armaments manufacture was in short supply, because such colonial workers were already fully occupied.
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Increased productivity can only be achieved through technological upgrading, innovation and the efficient use of a highlyskilledlabourforce.
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This involves the question ofskilledlabour.
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There is askilledlabourforce.
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There is no scarcity ofskilledlabour.
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Skilledlabouris now a major problem.
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These industries will requireskilledlabour.
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I now turn toskilledlabour.
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It has lots ofskilledlabour.
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That was a dispute withskilledlabour.
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Business is following theskilledlabourout.
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