Labour vs Industry - What's the difference?
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Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
* 1719, (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)
That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
* (Richard Hooker) (1554-1600)
(uncountable) Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.
*, chapter=22
, title= (uncountable) A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
The act of a mother giving birth.
The time period during which a mother gives birth.
(nautical) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
An old measure of land area in Mexico and Texas, approximately 177 acres.
To toil, to work.
To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).
To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard or wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden.
* Granville
* Alexander Pope
* Sir Walter Scott
To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
(nautical) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
(uncountable) The tendency to work persistently.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=November 12, work=BBC Sport
, title= (countable, business, economics) Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=71, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (uncountable, economics) Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=(Edwin Black)
, title= (in the singular, economics) The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Automated production of material goods{{cite web
, author=(European Parliament)
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Labour is a related term of industry.
As a proper noun labour
is (short for) the labour party.As a noun industry is
(uncountable) the tendency to work persistently.labour
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Alternative forms
* labor (US)Noun
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada)- Being a labour of so great a difficulty, the exact performance thereof we may rather wish than look for.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.}}
- (Bartlett)
Usage notes
Like many other words ending in -our''/''-or'', this word is spelled ''labour'' in the UK and ''labor'' in the U.S.; in Canada, ''labour'' is preferred, but ''labor'' is not unknown. In Australia, where ''labour'' is the usual spelling, ''labor'' is nonetheless used in the name of the , reflecting the fact that the ''-or endings had some currency in Australia in the past. * Adjectives often used with "labour": physical, mental, technical, organised.Synonyms
*Derived terms
* (The act of a mother giving birth) labour painVerb
(en-verb) (UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada)- I think we've all got the idea. There's no need to labour the point.
- the stone that labours up the hill
- The line too labours , and the words move slow.
- to cure the disorder under which he laboured
- (Totten)
External links
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(wikipedia industry)Noun
International friendly: England 1-0 Spain, passage=England's win was built on industry and discipline, epitomised by the performances of Manchester City's Joleon Lescott in defence and Scott Parker in midfield.}}
End of the peer show, passage=Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.}}
Internal Combustion, chapter=2 , passage=But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries . By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.}}
Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}
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