provision of labour

collocation in English

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provision
noun
uk
/prəˈvɪʒ.ən/
us
/prəˈvɪʒ.ən/
the act of ...
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labour
adjective
uk
/ˈleɪ.bər/
us
/ˈleɪ.bɚ/
belonging or relating to the ...
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(Definition ofprovisionandlabourfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Throughout the history of the docks since the war there has been this division between the provision of capital and theprovisionoflabour.
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I would like to see the trade unions become agents for theprovisionoflabourwherever it may be required.
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Theprovisionoflabouris, of course, as has been already said, of vital importance to the production of food.
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This includes theprovisionoflabourto the cockle industry.
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We want assistance in theprovisionoflabour.
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I understand that during this next harvest theprovisionoflabourwill be more or less all right.
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Further categories are those of the manufacture of goods for private markets and theprovisionoflabourfor services required by private bodies or persons.
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Theprovisionoflabourfor the defence programme means finding the right type of labour in the right place.
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Then there is the question of theprovisionoflabour.
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Theprovisionoflabour, including the essential nucleus of skilled labour, for new factories, is one of the subjects under examination.
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For most building work the cost lies in theprovisionoflabour—and labour is available inside prisons.
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The building of new nursery school premises must depend upon theprovisionoflabourand building materials.
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It is the most curiousprovisionoflabourlaw ever put on the statute book.
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The real stumbling block is theprovisionoflabourto clear, to build, and to repair.
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The first is theprovisionoflabourand the second is the delivery of materials.
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There is theprovisionoflabourand material.
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We shall not deal with this problem by statements being made which are not true regarding theprovisionoflabour.
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As a result, temporary assistance has been arranged, pending theprovisionoflabourto repair and maintain the existing local fleets and the transfer of vehicles from elsewhere.
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I have no reason to suppose that the existing arrangements for giving effect to the provisions of labour legislation are inadequate.
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