Labour — [ Charles Sprague Pearce (1896).] Labour or labor may refer to:* Work of any kind * Wage labour, in which a worker sells their labour and the employer buys it * Manual labour, physical work done by people * Childbirth, especially from the start… … Wikipedia
pool — pool1 W2S2 [pu:l] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(for swimming)¦ 2¦(area of water)¦ 3 pool of water/blood/light etc 4¦(game)¦ 5¦(group of people)¦ 6¦(shared money/things)¦ 7 the pools 8¦(sports)¦ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ [Sense: 1 3; Origin … Dictionary of contemporary English
pool — See commodity pool. The CENTER ONLINE Futures Glossary (1) For mortgage backed securities, a pool is a group of mortgage loans backing an individual security issue. (2) In funds transfer pricing systems, a pool is an aggregation of funds to… … Financial and business terms
pool — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 swimming pool, etc. ADJECTIVE ▪ bathing, paddling (BrE), swimming, wading (AmE) ▪ big ▪ little, small … Collocations dictionary
labour — (BrE) (AmE labor) noun 1 work ADJECTIVE ▪ manual, physical ▪ back breaking, forced, hard ▪ He was sentenced to four years hard labour for his crime … Collocations dictionary
Labour in India — India s labour force exhibits extremes ranging from large numbers of illiterate workers unaccustomed to machinery or routine, to a sizable pool of highly educated scientists, technicians, and engineers, capable of working anywhere in the world. A … Wikipedia
pool — I noun 1) pools of water Syn: puddle, pond, lake 2) the hotel has a pool Syn: swimming pool, baths; Brit. swimming baths; N.Amer. natatorium II 1. noun 1) a pool of skilled labour … Synonyms and antonyms dictionary
pool — /pu:l/ noun 1. an unused supply ● a pool of unemployed labour or of expertise 2. US a group of mortgages and other collateral used to back a loan ■ verb ♦ to pool resources to put all resources together so as to be more powerful or profitable ♦… … Dictionary of banking and finance
Portal:Organized Labour — Wikipedia portals: Culture Geography Health History Mathematics Natural sciences People Philosophy Religion Society Technology Main page … Wikipedia
Reserve army of labour — is a concept in Karl Marx s critique of political economy. It refers basically to the unemployed in capitalist society. It is synonymous with industrial reserve army or relative surplus population , except that the relative surplus population… … Wikipedia
labor pool — noun the source of trained people from which workers can be hired • Syn: ↑labor force • Hypernyms: ↑labor, ↑labour, ↑working class, ↑proletariat … Useful english dictionary