division of labour

noun

1. a system of organizing the manufacture of an article in a series of separate specialized operations, each of which is carried out by a different worker or group of workers

Example Sentences

We also mean the sophistication of its organisation: the division of labour, the allocation of specialist tasks, the efficient marshalling of resources, the meticulous planning that was needed to keep the wheels of the killing machine turning.

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Smith wrote that “the division of labour occasions, in every art, a proportional increase of the productive powers of labour.”

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“It’s an opportunistic recycling that the ants are doing inside the colony … and a metabolic division of labour,” says Adria LeBoeuf, a biologist at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

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On the surface, the division of labour is clear: The government will use intervention to arrest "excessive" volatility, while the BOJ will keep rates ultra-low to support the economy.

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"That specifically includes making even greater use of the option of entrusting missions to groups of member states prepared to undertake them, known as coalitions of the willing. That is EU division of labour in its best sense."

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