单词	slave labour
释义	slave labourˌslave ˈlabour British English, slave labor American English noun [uncountable] Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS An end to child abuse and slave labour? Boat people, refugee camps, people-smugglers, slave labour and much of the world's poverty are the result. It also mentioned the increasingly documented use of slave labour and the routine torture of prisoners and detainees. The canals linking the city to St Petersburg in the south were built by slave labour in Stalin's days. The industry is desperate to shake off the allegation that the chocolate sold in the West may be tainted by slave labour. This was only one of the disadvantages of a slave labour force. With slave labour they were cheaper to build than it was to provide the necessary lead or bronze piping for alternative means. Without slave labour the plantations of sugar and cotton could not have been as rapidly developed. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatornot earning much money► low-paid low-paid workers do not earn much money for their work. Low-paid work is work that people do not get paid much money for: · a low-paid mechaniclow-paid job: · The jobs centre seems to list only low-paid temporary jobs. ► be badly-paid if someone is badly paid, they do not earn much money for their work - use this when you think someone should earn much more money: · A lot of people think that nurses are badly-paid. ► get peanuts/work for peanuts informal to be paid very little money: · Jobs are so hard to find that people are willing to work for peanuts. ► not pay well if work or a job does not pay well , the people who do it do not receive much money, especially considering the amount of work they have to do, the amount of knowledge they need to have etc: · It used to be accepted that teaching didn't pay very well, but things have changed a lot. ► slave labour British /slave labor American if you say that what someone is paid is slave labour , you mean that they are paid very little money even though they have to work extremely hard, and this is unfair: · £50 a week? That's slave labour!· Working for them is slave labor - they only pay five bucks an hour. 1work done by slaves, or the people who do this work2informal work for which you are paid an unfairly small amount of money
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