1. Ensemble des travailleurs. La main d'oeuvre spécialisée.
2. Travail effectué. Pour changer une pièce qui vaut deux francs il y a 200 F de main-d'oeuvre.
One of the factors of production, used to produce goods and provide services. Wages are the reward for labor. The quantity of labor in a modern economy is determined by the size of the population and the extent to which young and old people and women are prepared to take paid work.(Alternate spelling: labour).
Sequence of events in childbirth, from the first contraction of the womb through to delivery. There are three stages of labor, normally spread over some hours.
Alternate (chiefly British) spelling for labor.
A recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing; SYN. reward, payoff.
ETYM Old Eng. work, werk, weorc, AS. weorc, worc; akin to OFries. werk, wirk, OS., Dutch, and German werk, Old High Germ. werc, werah, Icel. and Swed. verk, Dan. vaerk, Goth. gawaúrki, Greek ergon.
1. Employment; a job.
2. Activity directed toward making or doing something.
3. Something produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing; SYN. piece of work.
1. A person who works at a specific job.
2. Sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae.