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micro-labour

micro-labour is the alternative form of microlabor.

Meaning of microlabor

Noun

microlabor (uncountable)

  1. A type of employment characterized by short-term or piecework jobs that are part of a larger project in which the worker is not involved.
    • Similarly, the State's agriculture has a series of microlabor markets. Some crops and areas have ample supplies of mostly legal harvest workers, for example, lettuce and grapes use mostly legal harvest workers.1982, The H-2 Program and Nonimmigrants

Questions about micro-labour

What is micro-labour the alternative form of?
Micro-labour is the alternative form of microlabor.

Words near micro-labour in the dictionary

  1. micro-interaction
  2. micro-interactions
  3. micro-irrigation
  4. micro-joule
  5. micro-labor
  6. micro-labour
  7. micro-level
  8. micro-level orientation
  9. micro-levels
  10. micro-location
  11. micro-locations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: micro-labour (page history and authors); microlabor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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