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  • 1Woman — • The position of woman in society has given rise to a discussion which, is known under the name of the woman question Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Woman     Woman      …

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  • 2labour — I UK [ˈleɪbə(r)] / US [ˈleɪbər] noun Word forms labour : singular labour plural labours *** 1) [uncountable] economics the workers in a particular country, industry, or company considered as a group the declining demand for labour in agriculture… …

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  • 3Labour Party (Ireland) — Infobox Irish Political Party party name = Páirtí an Lucht Oibre Labour Party party articletitle = Labour Party (Ireland) party leader = Eamon Gilmore deputy leader = Joan Burton foundation = 1912 ideology = Democratic socialism, Social democracy …

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  • 4Labour party — a political party in Great Britain, formed in 1900 from various socialist and labor groups and taking its present name in 1906. * * * British political party whose historic links with trade unions have led it to promote an active role for the… …

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  • 5Woman of the Apocalypse — The phrase Woman of the Apocalypse refers to a character from the Book of Revelation 12:1 18: [Douay Rhiems http://www.newadvent.org/bible/rev012.htm] 1 And a great sign appeared in heaven: A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her… …

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  • 6woman — [[t]w ʊmən[/t]] ♦ women 1) N COUNT A woman is an adult female human being. ...a young Lithuanian woman named Dayva. ...men and women over 75 years old. ...a woman doctor. 2) N UNCOUNT You can refer to women in general as woman. ...the oppression… …

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  • 7Woman Citizen, The — ▪ American periodical       American weekly periodical, one of the most influential women s publications of the early decades of the 20th century. It came into existence as a result of a substantial bequest from Mrs. Frank Leslie to Carrie… …

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  • 8labour education —    arbitrary imprisonment    Usually for political dissenters in China, like the Chinese woman who, in 1981, wished to marry a French diplomat and was sentenced to two years re education through labour for the offence of illegally living together …

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  • 9Woman's Christian Temperance Union —       American organization, founded in November 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio, in response to the “Woman s Crusade,” a series of temperance demonstrations that swept through New York and much of the Midwest in 1873–74. Annie Wittenmyer (Wittenmyer,… …

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  • 10Abstract labour and concrete labour — Part of a series on Marxism …

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