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microlabour

microlabour 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

Origin of microlabour

From micro- + labour.

Questions about microlabour

What is microlabour the alternative form of?
Microlabour is the alternative form of microlabor.

Words near microlabour in the dictionary

  1. microlabeling
  2. microlabelled
  3. microlabelling
  4. microlabels
  5. microlabor
  6. microlabour
  7. microlactin
  8. microlactins
  9. microlam
  10. microlambert
  11. microlamberts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: microlabour (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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