division of labour

British  

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

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Example Sentences

"If the transfers are coupled with messaging on the recognition of women's unpaid work, they could potentially disrupt the gendered division of labour when paid employment opportunities become available," says Prof Kotiswaran.

From BBC

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

From Seattle Times

“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.

From Scientific American

"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."

From Reuters

When asked about this, US officials say there is unity of purpose but admit there might be a "division of labour" with different countries imposing different sanctions.

From BBC