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PRONUNCIATION OF OVERLABOUR

overlabour  [ˌəʊvəˈleɪbə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OVERLABOUR

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Overlabour 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 OVERLABOUR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of overlabour in the English dictionary

The definition of overlabour in the dictionary is excessive toil.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OVERLABOUR


antilabor
ˌæntɪˈleɪbə
belabour
bɪˈleɪbə
caber
ˈkeɪbə
ceiba
ˈseɪbə
kebar
ˈkeɪbə
labor
ˈleɪbə
labour
ˈleɪbə
labours
ˈleɪbə
Makeba
məˈkeɪbə
neighbor
ˈneɪbə
neighbour
ˈneɪbə
nonlabor
ˌnɒnˈleɪbə
overlabor
ˌəʊvəˈleɪbə
prolabor
prəʊˈleɪbə
saber
ˈseɪbə
sabre
ˈseɪbə
tabor
ˈteɪbə
tabour
ˈteɪbə
weber
ˈveɪbə
zeitgeber
ˈtsaɪtˌɡeɪbə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OVERLABOUR

overlabor
overlade
overladen
overlaid
overlain
overland
overlander
overlap
overlapped
overlapping
overlard
overlarge
overlate
overlaunch
overlavish
overlax
overlay
overlaying
overleaf
overleap

WORDS THAT END LIKE OVERLABOUR

aesthetic labour
bonded labour
casual labour
child labour
direct labour
division of labour
emotional labour
forced labour
free labour
harbour
hard labour
immigrant labour
indirect labour
lump labour
manual labour
New Labour
organized labour
skilled labour
slave labour
sweated labour

Synonyms and antonyms of overlabour in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «overlabour» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OVERLABOUR

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

Translator English - Chinese

overlabour
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

overlabour
570 millions of speakers

English

overlabour
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

overlabour
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

overlabour
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

overlabour
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

overlabour
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

overlabour
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

overlabour
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Overlabour
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

overlabour
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

overlabour
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

overlabour
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Overlabour
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

overlabour
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

overlabour
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ओव्हर लॅबोर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

overlabour
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

overlabour
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

overlabour
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

overlabour
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

overlabour
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

overlabour
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vermoei
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

overlabour
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

overlabour
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of overlabour

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERLABOUR»

The term «overlabour» is used very little and occupies the 193.002 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERLABOUR» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OVERLABOUR»

Discover the use of overlabour in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to overlabour and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Labour, Politics and the State in Industrialising Thailand
overlabour. control. As for earlier periods, littleisknown about the conditions andexperiences that confronted the majorityofthose drawninto urbanwaged industrial employment during the1960s. Some scattered accounts do, however, exist.
Andrew Brown, 2004
2
The base stated between the church of Rome and the church of ...
... and sa broke Bread. But I have overlabour'd this Point, to because you lay so much Stress upon it. jag, » 174. L. You have indeed overlabour'd it, and shew'd yourself a most skilful Puzzle-Cause in darkning and perplexing the clearest Truth.
Charles Leslie, 1721
3
The case stated between the Church of Rome and the Church of ...
... and to broke Bread. But I have overlabour'd this Point, to because you lay so much Stress upon it. ptg. L. You have indeed overlabour'd it, and shew'd yourself a most skilful Puzzle-Cause in darkning and perplexing the clearest Truth.
Robert Manning, 1721
4
The case stated between the Church of Rome and the Church of ...
... eat Bread , and » broke' Bread. But I have overlabour'd this Point , » because you lay so much Stress upon it. pag. *> 174. L. You have indeed overlabour'd it, and shew'd yourself a most skilful Puzzle-Cause in darkning a.nd perplexing the  ...
Robert Manning, 1721
5
The Shakespeare argosy, containg much of the wealth of ...
Overlabour (a mistake) [855]. Striving to better, oft we mar what 's well. Albany. King Lear, Act i. Sc. 4. Overlabour (a waste) [347 J. To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue ...
William Shakespeare, Alfred Frederick P. Harcourt, 1874
6
A new universal etymological technological, and pronouncing ...
... with tracks ; to conquer ; to subdue ; to vanquish ; to harass ; to overlabour ; to lay, or press, as standing corn by hard weather ; to depress ; to crush by repeated opposition ; to drive by violence ; to move with fluttering agitation ; to beat down, ...
John Craig (F.G.S.), 1848
7
Observations on Tacitus: In which His Character as a Writer ...
EXT to this Affectation of dabling in Antiquity, one may presume to call Tacitus's Description in Question; as being overlabour'd, unnatural, and sometimes even mean. He is tooambitious of Pomp and Ornament; yet the Reader is unaffected, ...
Thomas Hunter, 1752
8
Our Homeless Poor; and what We Can Do to Help Them
One girl, who much interested us, in a city hospital, had been lately carried there in wretchedly broken health, from overlabour at this work. She gave us the following account of herself : — At eight years of age she was apprenticed to the flower ...
Ellen Barlee, 1860
9
A dictionary of the derivations of the English language
To exert strength with fatigue of body or mind; — v. t. To weary; to overlabour. Toil , (toil) u. [F. toila, toils, nets, from toile, cloth, L tela, a web.] A net or snare; a mesh. Toilet, (toil'et) n. [F. toiletle, from toile, cloth, linen.] A covering spread over a ...
English language, 1872
10
The formation of Christendom
Hence the slave perished undeplored, unvalued, on the rack, in the underground workhouse, of disease, of overlabour, the sport of his master's or his mistress's passion or caprice. Hence the rich man, after indulging every fancy, and revelling  ...
Thomas William Allies, 1865

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OVERLABOUR»

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A broken schools system wholly unprepared for march of the machines
Now, of course, it's silly to overlabour the point. The Luddites will always eventually be proved wrong. Basic economics tells us that advances in ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jan 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Overlabour [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/overlabour>. May 2024 ».
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