Child labor, employment of children of less than a legally specified age. In Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand, children under age 15 rarely work except in commercial agriculture, because of the effective enforcement of laws passed in the
Synonym(s): labour. [L. toil, suffering] Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012 Labor The process during which the uterus contracts, and the cervix opens to allow the passage of a baby into the vagina. Mentioned in: Placenta Previa, Placental Abruption Gal...
childbirth - the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child accouchement, childbearing, vaginal birth obstetrical delivery, delivery - the act of delivering a child active birth - childbirth during which the mother is encouraged to be an active par...
2. The labor and skill of one man is frequently used in a partnership, and valued as equal to the capital of another. 3. When business has been done for another, and suit is brought to recover a just reward, there is generally contained in the declaration, a count for work and labor...
1.hard work.The building of the cathedral involved considerable labour over two centuries;People engaged in manual labour are often badly paid.trabajo 2.workmen on a job.The firm is having difficulty hiring labour.obreros,mano de obra 3.(in a pregnant womanetc) the process of childbirth.She ...
EDITOR, - In their critique of the package of interventions that constitute active management of labour James G Thornton and Richard J Lilford point out that controlled trials of these interventions have failed to show a reduction in operative delivery similar to that …...
SRAS(short run aggregate supply):is the total output of an economy that will be supplied when there has not been enough time for the prices of factors of production to change. The cost effect:although wage and cost of raw materials do ...
Local Labourmeans skilled, semi-skilled workers of all trades engaged by the Contractor on the Site for the purpose of or in connection with the Contract or engaged full time by the Contractor off the site for the Purpose of or in connection with the Contract (by way of illustration but no...
Sports are part of every culture past and present, but each culture has its own definition of sports. The most useful definitions are those that clarify the relationship of sports to play, games, and contests. “Play,” wrote the German theorist Carl Diem, “is purposeless activity, for its...
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a United Nations (U.N.) agency. The goal of the International Labour Organization (ILO) is to advance social and economic justice by setting international labor standards. The conventions and protocols of the International Labour Organization (ILO) are...