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Collocations for Labour - noun

Labour is used before these nouns:
administration, bench, campaign, challenger, councillor, government, heartland, landslide, leader, leadership, majority, manifesto, party, peer, politician, premier, prime minister, rule, seat, spin, support, supporter, thinking, voter, win

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Collocations for labour - noun

1. work

ADJECTIVE

manual, physical
back-breaking, forced, hard
He was sentenced to four years hard labour for his crime.
productive, unproductive
unpaid

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VERB + labour/labor

withdraw
The miners are threatening to withdraw their labour.

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labour/labor + NOUN

productivity
camp
Dissidents were forced to work in labour camps.

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2. workers

ADJECTIVE

free, organized
wage
cheap, low-cost
casual, day (AmE)
skilled, unskilled
illegal
foreign, immigrant, migrant
child, slave
It is now thought that the Pyramids were not built using slave labour.
prison
farm
sweatshop

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labour/labor + NOUN

force
the size of the labour force
market, pool, supply
an increasingly competitive labour market
shortage
cost, costs
movement
tensions between the labour movement and government
organization
activist, leader
relations
dispute
law

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3. giving birth

ADJECTIVE

difficult, easy
long, short
The baby was born after a long labour.
preterm
women at risk of preterm labour

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VERB + labour/labor

go into
She went into labour two weeks early.
induce
Labour was induced when the baby was ten days overdue.

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labour/labor + NOUN

room, ward (BrE)
pains

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PREPOSITION

in labour
She was in labour for ten hours.

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