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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
forced labour
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In 1769 1,375 people were at work on it, many of them prisoners at forced labour.
▪ It also imposed forced labour, and maintained an astonishing, rigorously trained army.
▪ It can be argued that forced labour has not ceased but merely changed its form.
▪ The effects of conquest were followed by the still greater catastrophes of exploitation and forced labour.
▪ These were State enterprises, engineered by the military, and using convict and forced labour.
▪ They were executed or sentenced to long periods of forced labour.
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forced labour

n. (alternative spelling of forced labor English)

Usage examples of "forced labour".

What of the corvees by which they command forced labour, of the ban de vendage, which gives them the first vintage, the banvin which enables them to control to their own advantage the sale of wine?

After a long time he was captured and the Germans thought that it would be very amusing to make a Polish aristocrat earn his living by forced labour.

That forced labour had been more than sufficient for both Sean and Michael and neither of them had ever shown the least desire to return to the H'am Mine again.

And even the minority who lorded it over that wide realm of subjugation and of restraint and forced labour were uneasy and unhappy in their souls.

I used the French forced labour battalions and Marcel was my chief contact.

Then she spent two more years in a forced labour camp in Siberia, where espers kept an eye on her.

For all other offences, including the offence of idleness, the punishment is forced labour upon the vast national buildings which are always going on in some part of the country, with or without periodical floggings, according to the crime.