Force and Labour

Force

Force noun - A body of persons at work or available for work.

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Labour and force are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Labour" instead a noun "Force".

Labour noun - Productive work (especially physical work done for wages).

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Force and labour are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Force" instead a noun "Labour".

Nearby Words: labor, labored, laboured, laborer, labourer

physical	physical force	physical labour
actual	actual force	actual labour
great	great force	great labour
dangerous	dangerous force	dangerous labour
Other adjectives: dark, brute, local.

Wardens Are Evil: The prison guards force the convicts of the Penal Colony to labour in the hot sun until they collapse.

Source: Film / Captain Thunderbolt
The United States Army Air Force made all their enlisted ranks (mostly gunners) sergeants for a similar reason: they heard that sergeants and officers were not used for slave labour.

Source: Outranking Your Job
Virtually everything about Cambodia is known from the film The Killing Fields, which means it is a poor jungle country overrun by Communist guerillas and anti-Western fanatics who force their captives to do hard labour at gunpoint and starve.

Source: National Stereotypes / Asia

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