hard labour

Domain: Universal Words

(BrE) (AmE hard labor) noun [U] punishment in prison that involves a lot of very hard physical work: He was sentenced to ten years' hard labour.

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hard labourEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary hard labourEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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hard labour