division of labournoun [ U ]
UK US division of labor uk/dɪˌvɪʒ.ən əv ˈleɪ.bər/us/dɪˌvɪʒ.ən əv ˈleɪ.bɚ/a way of organizing work, especially making things, so that particular types of work are done by particular people:
Society is challenging the traditional sexual division of labour.
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Types of employment
- administrative
- administrative assistant
- at the coalface idiom
- backroom boys
- blue-collar
- clerk
- honorary
- managerial
- menial
- NEET
- off-duty
- office junior
- probation
- professionally
- short time
- skilled
- slave labour
- subcontractor
- sweated
- wilderness
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