convict labour

collocation in English

meaningsofconvictandLabour

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convict
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɒn.vɪkt/us
/ˈkɑːn.vɪkt/
someone who is in prison because they are guilty of ...
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labour
noun[+ sing/pl verb]
uk
/ˈleɪ.bər/us
/ˈleɪ.bɚ/
the Labour Party, the political party in Great Britain that believes in social equality, a more equal sharing out of wealth, and the rights ...
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(Definition ofconvictandlabourfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Different types of labour were used to complete this task:convictlabour-who had been given hard labour as part of their prison sentence.
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It is therefore not a fact that thisconvictlabourenters into any appreciable extent into the competing power of the imported potatoes.
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Are any of these cereals either grown, gathered or otherwise handled byconvictlabour?
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I understand that labour of the kind in question is in no sense prison orconvictlabour.
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If you object to the use ofconvictlabourby a corporation, hard luck again.
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I understand that at the moment afforestation is to some degree carried out byconvictlabour, as is land reclamation.
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By tradition, in the olden days a great many public works were carried out in this and other countries byconvictlabour.
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The provision speaks of the import of goods either manufactured, produced or mined byconvictlabour.
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The difference between the two is one of machinery and of application to forced labour as well as toconvictlabour.
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In short, where there is the will, there is no difficulty in disguising forced labour asconvictlabour and the two, therefore, must receive the same treatment.
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Would not that decision be worth taking into consideration in the case of goods imported into this country, when those goods have been produced byconvictlabour?
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Convictlabouris being employed.
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The engineering was difficult, but with a ready supply ofconvictlabouron hand, the causeway was constructed with main force.
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The lighthouse was built byconvictlabourusing locally-quarried dolerite over two years.
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The factory was built usingconvictlabourfrom locally quarried sandstone and was completed in 1821 at the cost of 4,778.
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He was also the surveyor and overseer ofconvictlabour.
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The house he built withconvictlabouris made of sandstone from the area.
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Built byconvictlabour, the gaol operated between 1821 until the early 1960s.
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Public works during the convict era relied onconvictlabour, which could only be provided if the convicts were healthy.
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Plans to useconvictlabourto mine coal on the island in the 1840s were never realised.
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