unskilled labour

collocation in English

meaningsofunskilledandlabour

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unskilled
adjective
uk
/ʌnˈskɪld/us
/ʌnˈskɪld/
Unskilled people have no particular work skills, and unskilled work does not need any ...
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labour
noun
uk
/ˈleɪ.bər/us
/ˈleɪ.bɚ/
practical work, especially when it involves hard ...
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(Definition ofunskilledandlabourfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Unskilledlabourwas recruited locally.
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Unskilledlabouris not much good.
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That applies particularly tounskilledlabour.
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There is plenty ofunskilledlabour.
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I refer here specifically tounskilledlabour.
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These do have quite a lot in common, such as unusually large foreign communities and high proportions ofunskilledlabour.
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The local authorities paid the full rate forunskilledlabour.
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The rate forunskilledlabourmay not be the same.
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However, there is a great surplus ofunskilledlabour.
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Unskilledlabourof this sort cannot get full production.
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I am not now speaking ofunskilledlabouronly.
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In that sense they will join theunskilledlabourmarket.
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The demand forunskilledlabouris rapidly disappearing.
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Then you get in a lot ofunskilledlabour.
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There is a reservoir ofunskilledlabourin that area.
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The tendency to eliminate:unskilledlabouris greater and greater.
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Professional men and shopkeepers could not do skilled labour, but they can dounskilledlabour, forunskilledlabouryou can work by a rota.
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Obviouslyunskilledlabourdepends on physical strength, and these men will always be at a disadvantage in comparison withunskilledlabour.
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It needs to be labour-intensive industry employing a lot ofunskilledlabour, because a large pool ofunskilledlabouris available.
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Less and less every year there are demands forunskilledlabour; machinery, mechanics, and science are displacingunskilledlabourover here.
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Another was the availability of abundantunskilledlabour, including women and children hired during peak seasons or in areas where men had other employment opportunities.
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The authors apply labourforce weights, include sectors which slipped through the earlier investigative net and allow for short-time work andunskilledlabour.
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He then obtains the result that the input ofunskilledlabour, which would be nature in our case, has no influence on the growth rate.
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This comes across most strongly in the authors' effort to reinterpret sub-contracting 'sweating' as simply the more efficient use of availableunskilledlabour.
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