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Meaning of "hard labour" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HARD LABOUR

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HARD LABOUR

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preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Hard labour is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HARD LABOUR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

hard labour

Penal labour

Penal labour is a generic term for various kinds of unfree labour which prisoners are required to perform, typically manual labour. The work may be light or hard, depending on the context. Forms of sentence involving penal labour have included penal servitude and imprisonment with hard labour. The term may refer to several related scenarios: labour as a form of punishment, the prison system used as a means to secure labour, and labour as providing occupation for convicts. These scenarios can be applied to those imprisoned for political, religious, war, or other reasons as well as to criminal convicts. Large-scale implementations of penal labour include labour camps, prison farms, and penal colonies.

Definition of hard labour in the English dictionary

The definition of hard labour in the dictionary is the penalty of compulsory physical labour imposed in addition to a sentence of imprisonment: abolished in England in 1948.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HARD LABOUR

hard doer
hard done by
hard drive
hard drug
hard feeling
hard feelings
hard fern
hard grass
hard hat
hard hitter
hard landing
hard left
hard lens
hard line
hard lines
hard liquor
hard loan
hard luck
hard mint candy
hard money

WORDS THAT END LIKE HARD LABOUR

belabour
bonded labour
casual labour
child labour
direct labour
division of labour
emotional labour
forced labour
free labour
harbour
immigrant labour
indirect labour
labour
manual labour
New Labour
organized labour
overlabour
skilled labour
slave labour
sweated labour
tabour

Synonyms and antonyms of hard labour in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hard labour» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HARD LABOUR

Find out the translation of hard labour to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hard labour from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hard labour» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

苦役
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

trabajos forzados
570 millions of speakers

English

hard labour
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कठिन परिश्रम
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الأشغال الشاقة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

каторга
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

trabalhos forçados
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কঠিন পরিশ্রম
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

travaux forcés
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kerja keras
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Zwangsarbeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

重労働
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

강제 노동
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hard labor
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

công nhân siêng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கடின உழைப்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कठोर परिश्रम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ağır iş
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

lavori forzati
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ciężka praca
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

каторга
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

muncă grea
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σκληρή εργασία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

harde arbeid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hårt arbete
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hardt arbeid
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hard labour

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HARD LABOUR»

The term «hard labour» is normally little used and occupies the 115.367 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HARD LABOUR» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «hard labour» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «hard labour» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hard labour

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HARD LABOUR»

Discover the use of hard labour in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hard labour and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Hard Labour: The Sociology of Parenthood
This innovative book examines changes in family practices and paid work in the 21st century.
Caroline Gatrell, 2005
2
Hard Labour? Academic Work and the Changing Landscape of ...
Drawing on data from England, Australia and New Zealand, the book addresses how policies of successive labour governments have decreased autonomy of academics and increased regimes of surveillance, radically altering how academics think ...
Tanya Fitzgerald, Helen Gunter, 3rd, Julie White, 2012
3
New Labour/hard Labour?: Restructuring and Resistance Inside ...
This book provides the first critically informed discussion of work and workers in the UK welfare sector under New Labour. It examines the changing nature of work and explores the context of industrial relations across the welfare industry.
Gerry Mooney, Alex Law, 2007
4
Taking Education Really Seriously: Four Years Hard Labour
Michael Fielding has called on the key policy thinkers in education to offer their opinions on what has happened in education over the first three to four years of the New Labour Government.
Michael Fielding, 2004
5
A View Of The Hard-Labour Bill: 4
What is the object of the clause, or what the use of it I' What is at the bottom of this predilection for hard labour ? Sound. The labour is made hard, that it may be called llard; and it is called hard, that it may be frightful, for fear men should fall in  ...
‎1843
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Hard Labour: The Forgotten Voices of Latvian Migrant ...
Linda McDowell. LINDA MCDOWELL HARD LABOUR HARD LA HARD LAB The forgotten voices of Latvian migrant 'volunteer' workers HARD LABOUR HARD LABOUR THE FORGOTTEN VOICES OF LATVIAN MIGRANT. Front Cover.
Linda McDowell, 2013
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Three years hard Labour: the road to devaluation
the road to devaluation William Davis. Japan, an over-populated group of islands desperately short of food and raw materials, with tiny gold reserves and a geographical base that remains small compared with ours, managed to reach and ...
William Davis, 1970
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Reports from Commisioners: Fourteen Volumes
Degree of Instruction. Offence. Sentence. Fine or Penalty. Costs. 1845. £. ». d. £. s. d. 35 S. S. . 32 March 22 Read . . Felony .... 12 calendar months' hard labour. • • • * 36 T. M. . 40 Feb. 4 . Read and write 9 9 3 calendar months' hard labour.
‎1845
9
The English Prison and Borstal Systems: An Account of the ...
'Oakum picking was originally the task for the first month of a man's hard labour sentence, but when this work was given up, little could be done to render effective the distinction in the Rule between "hard bodily or hard manual labour," and ...
Lionel W. Fox, 1952
10
Four Years in Parliament With Hard Labour
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
Charles Wallwyn Radcliffe Cooke, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HARD LABOUR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hard labour is used in the context of the following news items.
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Six years for possession of cocaine, heroin - Trinidad Express
For possession of the cocaine Mohammed was sentenced to six years in prison and four years hard labour for possession of the heroin. «Trinidad & Tobago Express, Jul 15»
2
Blood on the streets as bitter Dublin feud grows - Independent.ie
And while they are there throw in hard labour for 16 hrs a day . I would suggest 5 years of that would teach them a lesson. FlagShare. «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
3
Sherlock author's bitter letters to police go on display - Portsmouth …
The vitriolic exchanges began in 1906 when Conan Doyle first investigated the case against Edalji, 27, who served seven years' hard labour ... «Portsmouth News, Jul 15»
4
Cashgate gunshot survivor Mphwiyo allowed to travel to South …
Apparently, the arrest of accounts assistant Victor Sithole – currently serving nine years in jail with hard labour for his part in the K24 billion ... «Nyasa Times, Jul 15»
5
The week ahead: aerial superiority and skills in the spotlight
So what happens to the hard labour then? We still need the engineers to design and operate all this sophisticated stuff but manual labour will ... «The Engineer, Jul 15»
6
Fraud: Estate Agent Jailed For Two Years - News on Naij.com
... sitting at Abule Egba Lagos, has sentenced a 57-year old estate agent, Ade Adetela to two years imprisonment with hard labour without an option of fine. «NAIJ.COM, Jul 15»
7
57-yo police imposter gets 20 months in prison
He was sentenced to 20 months in prison at hard labour for impersonating a police officer and three months at hard labour for obtaining money ... «Jamaica Observer, Jul 15»
8
Remembering Abdullah Hussain - The Express Tribune
A self-made man, Niaz Ahmed, through hard labour and perseverance had raised one of the leading publishing houses in the country with ... «The Express Tribune, Jul 15»
9
Book Review Philip Glass
Contemporary European composers would have eked out a living teaching and copying; Glass did hard labour as a truck loader, steel worker ... «Sinfini Music, Jul 15»
10
Crucifix shaped as hammer and sickle an insult | The Australian
... Vincent Zhu who spent years in a tiny cell in 50cm of filthy, freezing water, and of women who spent years in hard labour under a blazing sun, ... «The Australian, Jul 15»

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