contract labor
Americannoun
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labor coercible by the enforceable provisions of a contract.
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foreign labor supplied under contract for a particular job.
Example Sentences
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Gig work, contract labor, informal employment, and multiple job-holding complicate headline payroll figures.
From Barron's • Dec. 24, 2025
Supporters of the new rule, including labor unions, have said the change is necessary because of an uptick in the use of contract labor, including workers provided by staffing agencies, in recent years.
From Reuters • Oct. 26, 2023
Indentured servitude is a form of contract labor in which people pledge to work for an agreed period of time for an agreed form of compensation.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
In 1942, the temporary contract labor Bracero Program attracted millions of Latino workers to the country, including more than 46,000 Mexican laborers in the Northwest.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 13, 2022
He promised them that they would not be inconvenienced for more than a day or two, that the Americans would soon be shipped to Dresden as contract labor.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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