agricultural labour

collocation in English

meaningsofagriculturalandlabour

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agricultural
adjective
uk
/ˌæɡ.rɪˈkʌl.tʃər.əl/us
/ˌæɡ.rəˈkʌl.tʃɚ.əl/
used for farming or relating ...
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labour
noun
uk
/ˈleɪ.bər/us
/ˈleɪ.bɚ/
practical work, especially when it involves hard ...
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(Definition ofagriculturalandlabourfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The increase in agricultural capital raisesagriculturallabourproductivity.
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The references toagriculturallabourwere therefore not new.
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Wages for unskilledagriculturallabourhave also gone up, but relatively much less than food prices.
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From (7), the marginal value product ofagriculturallabourshould equal the prevailing (exogenous) wage.
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As a resultagriculturallabourby both servants and agricultural labourers was more important.
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If so, it might have already been aggravated by a lack of maleagriculturallabour.
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In addition, the article sheds light on the connection between childagriculturallabourand schooling rates.
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During that period, the population was encouraged to undertake onlyagriculturallabour.
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They also depend uponagriculturallabour, contract labour and service for their livelihood.
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They collaborated as much as they resisted, disdained allagriculturallabourand were intensely and violently male-chauvinist.
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Agriculturallabour, house construction and road paving were venerated as 'pioneering', but several sources reveal that cleaning remained unprestigious.
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It is likely that some of them were elderly and infirm and were unable to engage inagriculturallabour.
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This version of the model presumes that at current wages there is alternative employment for the currentagriculturallabourforce.
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However, in addition to the sharecroppers, some of theagriculturallabourwas provided by small independent farmers and day labourers.
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With the demand foragriculturallabouralready declining, this potential source of employment was thus closed off too.
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We admit that there is a shortage ofagriculturallabour, and that theagriculturallabourdoes not exist.
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Some of the men's greater involvement with grain production stemmed from the physical requirements and cultural expectations related to this type ofagriculturallabour.
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Both cultivated grapes and olives, and both participated in the market foragriculturallabourand in the rental market for land.
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It is a communal property composed of a communal forest and lands foragriculturallabourthat could be cultivated individually or collectively.
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The numbers in parentheses reflect the present value of labour made available to other sectors whenagriculturallabourdemand is below the benchmark level.
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Since there were very few large farms that employed external labour, demand foragriculturallabourwas relatively low on a macro level.
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This would increase the productivity ofagriculturallabour, alleviate mounting rural labour-shortages and ease the arduous nature of the labour process.
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What harm is there in their doingagriculturallabour?
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What has happened in regard toagriculturallabour?
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