Labour and Use

Labour

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

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Use and labour are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Use" instead the word "Labour" as a noun or a verb.

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

Use noun - The act or practice of employing something for a particular purpose.

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Labour and use are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Labour" instead the word "Use" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: useless, useful, used, usefulness, using

human	human labour	human use
liberal	liberal labour	liberal use
free	free labour	free use
heavy	heavy labour	heavy use
Other adjectives: actual, great, efficient.

After the Army restored order, someone had the baffling idea to round up the Zombies and use them as a source of cheap labour and entertainment, instead of destroying them!

Source: Film / Shaun of the Dead
Labour came back to power in 1929 but then got swept away by The Great Depression and MacDonald's insistence that the government did not use deficit spending to stimulate the economy.

Source: Useful Notes / Ramsay Macdonald
Mission: Impossible: In "Cargo Cult", a white man is posing as the son of the volcano god in order to use a native tribe as a slave labour force to work a gold man.

Source: Appease the Volcano God

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