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labor market

alt. (context economics English) A market with labor of workers. n. (context economics English) A market with labor of workers.

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labor market

n. the market in which workers compete for jobs and employers compete for workers

Usage examples of "labor market".

Similarly, the first gengineers and their regulators could not have foreseen the bots and their domination of the menial labor market.

To attract volunteers, it would be necessary to offer higher pay and better conditions, thus making an army career comparable to the standards of the civilian labor market.

Then they either joined up or had their pick of jobs on a booming labor market.

In one of those received a few days ago, from a mill town in Massachusetts, the writer complained bitterly that the influx of liberated Negroes had so overrun the labor market that scores of whites were tramping the streets with empty pockets.

Compared to Romanian children born just a year earlier, the cohort of children born after the abortion ban would do worse in every measurable way: they would test lower in school, they would have less success in the labor market, and they would also prove much more likely to become criminals.

It is September, college kids are fleeing the city, the labor market was never better.

After the first Vat-bred kids had come onto the labor market, however, the tide had turned.

Maybe they were students on the Grand Tour, or a troupe of workers caught up in one of those unusual vortices of labor market liquidity that made it cheaper to take the workers where the work was rather than vice versa.

Maybe they were just exercising eir prerogative inside a free labor market.

Tomorrow you will be taken to the labor market and sold into bonded service for a period of not less than five years.

Immigrants didn't move into their labor market but into their social security system, she said.

Director General Hilda has the labor market so cornered that- Executive Director, can't we make a deal?