"Labor" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 gōng fu skill / art / kung fu / labor / effort
 gōng fu period of time (may be months, or mere seconds) / spare time / skill / labor / effort
 láo gōng labor / laborer
 fēn miǎn labor / parturition / delivery
 láo lì labor / able-bodied worker / laborer / work force
 huó lu labor / physical work
 gōng work / worker / skill / profession / trade / craft / labor
 láo to toil / labor / laborer / to put sb to trouble (of doing sth) / meritorious deed / to console (Taiwan pr. [lao4] for this sense)
 qú labor
 xx5 (Japanese kokuji) labor / work
 dòng labor / work (Japanese kokuji)
 láo fāng labor (as opposed to capital or management) / the workers
 Yǐ sè liè Gōng dǎng Labor (Israel)
 láo dòng work / toil / physical labor / CL:次[ci4]
 rén lì manpower / labor power
 gōng huì labor union / trade union / CL:個|个[ge4]
 láo dòng lì labor force / manpower
 fēn gōng to divide up the work / division of labor
 tǎo hǎo to get the desired outcome / to win favor by fawning on sb / to curry favor with / a fruitful outcome to reward one's labor
 jié jīng to crystallize / crystallization / crystal / crystalline / (fig.) the fruit (of labor etc)
 bǎ tóu labor contractor / gangmaster
 láo dòng hé tong labor contract / contract between employer and employees governing wages and conditions
 wù lì physical resources (as opposed to labor resources)
 cuī shēng to pressure a younger relative to hurry up and have a baby / (obstetrics) to induce labor / to expedite childbirth / (fig.) to be a driving force in bringing sth into existence
 shěng lì to save labor / to save effort
 láo zuò work / manual labor
 láo zī labor and capital / labor and management
 zhèn tòng labor pains / (fig.) distress caused by a disruptive change
 Láo dòng jié International Labor Day (May Day)
 zǎo chǎn premature birth / premature labor
 láo jiào reeducation through labor
 tǐ lì láo dòng physical labor
 chǎn fáng delivery room (in hospital) / labor ward
 bāo gōng tóu chief labor contractor
 dǐ zhài to repay a debt in kind or by labor
 gōng dǎng worker's party / labor party
 rén mín tuán tǐ people's organization (e.g. labor unions, peasant associations, scholarly associations etc) / mass organization
 sǐ huǎn deferred death sentence / commuted death sentence with forced labor and judicial review after two years (PRC) (legal)
 láo gǎi abbr. for 勞動改造|劳动改造[lao2 dong4 gai3 zao4] / reform through labor / laogai (prison camp)
 tóng gōng child labor
 nǎo lì láo dòng mental labor / intellectual work
 láo dòng jiào yǎng reeducation through labor
 chī xīn wàng xiǎng to be carried away by one's wishful thinking (idiom) / to labor under a delusion / wishful thinking
 rén gōng fèi labor cost
 kǔ gōng hard labor (in penal code) / coolie
 chǎn qī time of birth / period of labor / lying-in
 chāi yì forced labor of feudal tenant (corvée) / bailiff of feudal yamen
 dài chǎn (of an expectant mother) to be in labor
 láo jiào suǒ correctional institution / labor camp
 láo wù shì chǎng labor market
 yǐn chǎn to induce labor (childbirth)
 lín pén at childbirth / in labor
 láo dòng bǎo xiǎn labor insurance
 kǔ yì forced labor / corvée / penal servitude
 láo yì forced labor / corvée (labor required of a serf) / animal labor
 Guó jì Láo dòng Jié May Day / International Labor Day (May 1)
 cū huó unskilled labor / heavy manual work
 wù gōng fèi cost of lost labor
 láo wěi huì labor committee / abbr. for 勞動委員會|劳动委员会
 jià zhí liàng magnitude of value / labor value (in economics, the labor inherent in a commodity)
使 yì shǐ to put to work (servant or animal) / to make use of for labor
 Guó jì Láo gōng Zǔ zhī International Labor Organization
 yáo yì forced labor / corvee
 mài lì qi to make a living doing manual labor / to give sth all one's got
 wǔ xíng imperial five punishments of feudal China, up to Han times: tattooing characters on the forehead 墨[mo4], cutting off the nose 劓[yi4], amputation of one or both feet 刖[yue4], castration 宮|宫[gong1], execution 大辟[da4 pi4] / Han dynasty onwards: whipping 笞[chi1], beating the legs and buttocks with rough thorns 杖[zhang4], forced labor 徒[tu2], exile or banishment 流[liu2], capital punishment 死[si3]
 cuī chǎn to induce labor / to expedite childbirth
 sǎn gōng day labor / piece-time work
 kǔ huó bitter work / sweated labor
 bàn tuō chǎn partly released from productive labor / partly released from one's regular work
 zhī gāo fat / grease / riches / fortune / fruits of one's labor
 yì forced labor / corvée / obligatory task / military service / to use as servant / to enserf / servant (old) / war / campaign / battle
 yáo folk-song / forced labor
 láo dòng gǎi zào reeducation through labor / laogai (prison camp)
 nú gōng slave labor / slave worker
 dǐ zhàng to repay a debt in kind or by labor
 bàn láo dòng lì one able to do light manual labor only / semi-able-bodied or part time (farm) worker
 biàn gōng to exchange labor / labor exchange (system of sharing workforce resources)
 Hòu shēng Láo dòng shěng Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (Japan)
 wǔ qī gàn xiào May 7 cadre school (farm where urban cadres had to undertake manual labor and study ideology during the Cultural Revolution) (abbr. for 五七幹部學校|五七干部学校[Wu3 Qi1 Gan4 bu4 Xue2 xiao4])
 wǔ qī gàn bù xué xiào May 7 Cadre School (farm where urban cadres had to undertake manual labor and study ideology during the Cultural Revolution) (abbr. to 五七幹校|五七干校[Wu3 Qi1 Gan4 xiao4])
 yǐ shēn dǐ zhài forced labor to repay a debt
 zuò shēng huó to work / to do manual labor
 cuī shēng pó midwife who induces labor
 xié variant of 協|协[xie2] / to cooperate / combined labor
 láo dòng yíng labor camp / prison camp with hard labor
 láo gǎi yíng correctional labor camp
 láo zī guān xì industrial relations / relations between labor and capital
 láo gù labor and employer
 láo gù guān xì relations between labor and employer / industrial relations
 qiǎng pò láo dòng forced labor (as punishment in criminal case)
 dǎ duǎn r casual labor / to work for a bit
 shēng chǎn láo dòng productive labor
 shěng jìn to save labor / to save effort
 gāo xuè lit. fat and blood / fruit of one's hard labor / flesh and blood
 lín rù at childbirth / in labor
 yòu dǎo fēn miǎn to induce labor (i.e. childbirth) / labor induction
 dǐng bāo to serve as forced labor / to take the rap for sb
  Golden Week / refers to three 7-day holiday periods at New Year 春節|春节, Labor day 勞動節|劳动节, National day 國慶|国庆 / also written 黃金周|黄
 hēi zhuān yáo lit. black brick kiln / factories that acquired notoriety in 2007 for slave labor
  Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labor
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