| 单词 | labour bureau |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslabour bureau labour bureau n. (also with capital initials) †(a) = Labour Exchange n. 1b (obsolete); (b) an office or department concerned with labour and employment; esp. a labour exchange (Labour Exchange n. 2a). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > market > [noun] > place for exchange of goods labour bureau1832 Labour Exchange1832 commodity exchange1881 society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [noun] > employment exchange employment office1801 slave market1835 registry office1839 employment agency1851 Labour Exchange1852 employment bureau1865 employment exchange1867 labour bureau1872 pool office1884 employment service1915 buroo1934 labour1934 job agency1952 job centre1970 1832 Crisis 11 Aug. 90/3 Perhaps the best preliminary mode..will be by the establishment of Equitable Exchange Labour Bureaus. 1872 Leeds Mercury 31 Oct. During the year 1871 the Labour Bureau at Castle Garden procured employment for 31,384 immigrants. 1889 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 52 520 This was followed by a report by Mr. Bateman, on the work of the Labour Bureau of the Board of Trade. 1941 Times 22 July 5/7 The large increase in industrial accidents which according to Labour Bureau statistics, were nearly twice as high in 1940 as in 1936. 2003 N. Nattrass in J. Daniel et al. State of Nation 143 Unemployed men crowded the rural labour bureaux in unprecedented numbers. < as lemmas |
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