contract labor
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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
The organizing effort marks a budding shift in power in an industry that has long relied on contract labor and the romantic ideal that working on games is a dream worth sacrificing for.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2023
In Hawaii, plantation owners used contract labor from Portugal, China, Korea, Japan, and the Philippines to grow their crops, especially sugarcane.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
Their assignment was to guard one hundred American prisoners of war, who would work as contract labor.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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