compulsory labour
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcompulsoryandlabour
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compulsory
adjective
uk/kəmˈpʌl.sər.i/us/kəmˈpʌl.sɚ.i/
If something is compulsory, you must do it because of a rule ...
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labour
noun
uk/ˈleɪ.bər/us/ˈleɪ.bɚ/
practical work, especially when it involves hard ...
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(Definition ofcompulsoryandlabourfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Not only were the violators not punished, but local officials stopped convening meetings or demandingcompulsorylabour, as though they had abdicated their authority.
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One of these was the growing demand forcompulsorylabour.
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Thoughcompulsorylabourwas abolished in 1831, a military form of control over land and labour continued, while commercial interests came to the fore.
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Self-help had become little more thancompulsorylabour.
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Taxes did not seem particularly burdensome and the actual increase in feudal demands of the lords consisted of the greater exploitation of unpaidcompulsorylabour.
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Compulsorylabourand confinement, not the quantity of food, enforces less eligibility.
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I believe it is much easier to introduce compulsory military service into this country than to introducecompulsorylabour.
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Now it is suggested that he should trycompulsorylabourcamps.
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There ought not to be anycompulsorylabour, even as a quick cut to profit.
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That is the limit to whichcompulsorylabourhas gone.
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Would you like your sons to go into acompulsorylabourcamp?
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In the year 1937 there were 2,622 porters compulsorily requisitioned, and 32,056 others, making a total of nearly 350,000 man-days worked undercompulsorylabour.
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This was notcompulsorylabour; it was voluntary labour called out for the particular purposes of this railway.
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The employment ofcompulsorylabourwill not be allowed.
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Have they considered raising thecompulsorylabourcontrols in these circumstances?
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The products of thatcompulsorylabourreach this country, and therefore it intimately concerns this country.
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Iscompulsorylabourbeing applied to the white people also?
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The same applies to thecompulsorylabourcolonies to deal with the unemployed; much of the work there is simply military training.
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I say it wascompulsorylabourthat was advocated.
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