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forced labourˌforced ˈlabour British English, forced labor American English noun [uncountable] - 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.
when prisoners or slaves are forced to do very hard physical work, or a system in which this happens: Two million suffered imprisonment or forced labour. |