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单词 labour-supplying
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labour-supplying
b. Objective and objective genitive, as labour-easing, labour-employing, labour-loathing, labour-supplying, etc., adjs.
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a1618 J. Sylvester New-polished Spectacles in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 1178 Th' idle Lubber, labour-loathing.
1775 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. 9 Dec. (1778) The common saw-horse makes the cutting of it [sc. firewood] a tedious labour-consuming piece of business.
1837 C. A. Wheelwright tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. 196 The fertile vine, whose tendrils bear The labour-easing grape.
1850 Southern Literary Messenger Apr. 199/2 The singularly rapid increase of labour-employing capital at the North.
1925 Morning News Rev. (Florence, S. Carolina) 1 Feb. All continually strive to find labor easing devices.
1981 Guardian (Nexis) 20 Sept. 20 There is a rigid hierarchy dividing the ringers (the labour-dodging crooks)..and the moilers who do the manual work.
1991 Impact of Sci. on Society (UNESCO) No. 162. 184 Employing cheaper crews from one of the labour-supplying countries such as the Philippines, the Indian sub-continent, or mainland China.
2002 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 23 Apr. 19 She sees no conflict in moaning about disloyalty and then selling her memoirs to the Labour-loathing Daily Mail.
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