productive labour
collocation in Englishmeaningsofproductiveandlabour
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productive
adjective
uk/prəˈdʌk.tɪv/us/prəˈdʌk.tɪv/
resulting in or providing a large amount or supply ...
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labour
noun
uk/ˈleɪ.bər/us/ˈleɪ.bɚ/
practical work, especially when it involves hard ...
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(Definition ofproductiveandlabourfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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No longer regarded asproductivelabour, women's work in the home was devalued.
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We wantproductivelabouremployed in replanting.
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The committee's report reflects months of hard andproductivelabour.
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I wish to say a word aboutproductivelabour.
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His health deteriorated to the point that, incapable ofproductivelabourand with no other skill, he was reduced to rowing a boat.
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It inflates all costs, particularly when it is charged onproductivelabour.
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They go happily to work, and they increase theproductivelabourforce.
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And you cannot justify it on the ground ofproductivelabour.
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Productivelabourmeans nowadays not people who work hard, but overwhelmingly machinery rather than men.
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There is first the wages paid forproductivelabour, and secondly the on-cost charges, wages, machinery, etc.
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It requires machinery, andproductivelabourhas to be transferred from the coal face to work of that kind.
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I do not believe that, as things are, we can solve the unemployment problem in the sense of absorbing all the unemployed intoproductivelabour.
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Is it not clear that there is a direct correlation between health expenditure funded by the national insurance fund and aproductivelabourforce?
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Administrative expenses of these boards continue to mount, whileproductivelabourcontinues to fall and this is one of the well-known signs of administrative incompetence.
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This debate has, in my view, emphasised the fact that our most precious raw material is theproductivelabourforce of this country.
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What is important is that this should be followed by equipment in this country, and byproductivelabourin the territories concerned.
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Cannot they be allowed to go free and engage inproductivelabour, even if they have to remain under a supervised and restricted freedom?
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It isproductivelabourthat is productive of wealth and capital accumulation.
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Men who are fitted to organize society forproductivelabourare entitled to rule it.
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It is both a goal to be attained for itself and a necessary condition for aproductivelabourforce to exist in a phase of rapid population ageing.
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How much better that they should be added to the world'sproductivelabourforce to create the wealth they need and, in creating it, improve our lot, too.
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He argues that distancing oneself from hardships ofproductivelabourhas always been the conclusive sign of high social status.
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I believe that by making the switch from the purchase of land toproductivelabour-intensive projects there would be a real contribution to the economic health of the country.
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There are people coming up to retirement who still wish to continue in some form ofproductivelabour and who, under collective bargaining, are either "in"or"out"and are, therefore, invariably"out".
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