单词 | labour-starved |
释义 | > as lemmaslabour-starved labour-starved adj. lacking available workers; suffering as a result of the absence of labour. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > [adjective] > without workers labour-starved1873 workerless1906 1873 Pall Mall Gaz. 3 Oct. 4/1 The dried-up, labour-starved owner of hundreds of broad acres seemed as much nonplused as English employers have been by Mr. Arch's strong utterances. 1898 J. Arch Story of Life viii. 183 Hundreds and hundreds of labour-starved acres. 1956 Times 14 Nov. 17/6 To maintain production in this labour-starved region. 1999 T. M. Barrett At Edge of Empire i. 6 The demands of their labor-starved economies forced them to shirk military service to attend to their farms and livestock. < as lemmas |
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