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labour / trabajo
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labour
(United States) [ˈleɪbər]
A. -noun
1. (=work, toil) trabajo (m)
a. the [division] of labour = la divisiónoun del trabajo
b. [hard] labour (law, legal) trabajos masculine plural forzados
·five years' hard labour
·cinco años de trabajos forzados
c. [Ministry] of Labour = Ministerio (m) de Trabajo
d. to [withdraw] one'noun labour = ponerse en huelga
2. (=effort) (usually plural) trabajo (m), esfuerzo (m)
a. he is starting to see the [fruits] of his labours = está empezando a ver los frutos de su trabajo or sus esfuerzos
3. (=task) trabajo (m), tarea (f)
a. a labour of [love] = un trabajo realizado con amor, una tarea realizada con amor
b. the labours of [Hercules] = los trabajos de Hércules
4. (industry)
(=workers) obreros masculine plural
(=workforce) mano (f) de obra
a. [capital] and labour = la empresa y los obreros
b. women were used as a source of [cheap] labour = se utilizaba a las mujeres como mano de obra barata
5. [Labour]
(British, Great Britain) (politics) el Partido Laborista, los laboristas
b. to [vote] Labour = votar a los laboristas
6. (=birth) parto (m)
a. to [be in] labour = estar de parto
b. to [go into] labour = ponerse de parto
B. -transitive verb
[+point] insistir en
a. I think that'noun labouring the [point] a bit = creo que eso es insistir demasiado en ese punto
·I won't labour the point
·no insistiré en ello
C. -intransitive verb
1. (=work) trabajar
a. to labour [at] something = trabajar en algo
b. the labouring [classes] = las clases trabajadoras
c. a labouring [job] = un trabajo de peónoun
d. to labour [to] do something = esforzarse or afanarse por hacer algo
2. (=struggle)
[engine] sonar forzado
·to labour up a hill
[person, vehicle] subir una cuesta con esfuerzo or dificultad
a. you seem to be labouring under a [misapprehension] = me parece que te estánoun equivocando
·to labour [under] the misapprehension or illusion [that]
·engañarse pensando que, creerse que
D. -compound
·labour camp -noun campamento (m) de trabajos forzados
·labour costs -noun plural costo masculine singular de la mano de obra
·labour day -noun Día (m) del Trabajo or de los Trabajadores en Reino Unido 1 mayo, en EE.UU., Canadá, primer lunes de septiembre
·labour dispute -noun conflicto (m) laboral
·Labour Exchange -noun
(British, Great Britain) (formerly) Bolsa (f) de Trabajo
·labour force -noun
(=numbers, people) mano (f) de obra
·labour law -noun (as study) derecho (m) laboral
·labour market -noun mercado (m) laboral, mercado (m) del trabajo
·labour movement -noun movimiento (m) obrero
·labour pains -noun plural
(=birth) dolores masculine plural de parto
·Labour party -noun Partido (m) Laborista
·labour relations -noun plural relaciones feminine plural laborales
·labour supply -noun oferta (f) de mano de obra
·labour ward -noun sala (f) de partos
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged and Audio Headword Pronunciation (Spanish) 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co Ltd. 1971,1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992,1993,1996,1997,2000,2003,2005.
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