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1 every
• joka• jokainen• kaikki* * *'evri1) (each one of or all (of a certain number): Every room is painted white; Not every family has a car.) jokainen2) (each (of an indefinite number or series): Every hour brought the two countries nearer war; He attends to her every need.) jokainen3) (the most absolute or complete possible: We have every reason to believe that she will get better.) kaikki4) (used to show repetition after certain intervals of time or space: I go to the supermarket every four or five days; Every second house in the row was bright pink; `Every other day' means èvery two days' or `on alternate days'.) joka•- everyone
- everyday
- everything
- everywhere
- every bit as
- every now and then / every now and again / every so often
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2 dust-up
noun (a quarrel: There was a bit of a dust-up between the two men.) eripura -
3 labour
• ihmistyövoima• työ• työvoima• heilua• hikoilla• huhkia• aherrus• ahertaa• ahkeroida• urakoida• uurastaa• ponnistus• raataa• puurtaa• rehkiä• synnytyspoltot• synnytys• pingottaa* * *'leibə 1. noun1) (hard work: The building of the cathedral involved considerable labour over two centuries; People engaged in manual labour are often badly paid.) työ2) (workmen on a job: The firm is having difficulty hiring labour.) työvoima3) ((in a pregnant woman etc) the process of childbirth: She was in labour for several hours before the baby was born.) synnytyspoltot4) (used (with capital) as a name for the Socialist party in the United Kingdom.) työväenpuolue2. verb1) (to be employed to do hard and unskilled work: He spends the summer labouring on a building site.) ahertaa2) (to move or work etc slowly or with difficulty: They laboured through the deep undergrowth in the jungle; the car engine labours a bit on steep hills.) kulkea vaivalloisesti•- laboriously
- laboriousness
- labourer
- labour court
- labour dispute
- labour-saving
См. также в других словарях:
two-bit — adj informal not at all good or important ▪ She s just a two bit movie star … Dictionary of contemporary English
two-bit — two′ bit adj. Informal. 1) sts costing 25 cents 2) sts inferior or unimportant; small time: a two bit actor[/ex] • Etymology: 1795–1805, amer … From formal English to slang
two-bit — ☆ two bit [to͞o′bit′ ] adj. [see BIT2, n. 2] 1. Informal worth or costing twenty five cents 2. Slang a) cheap; gaudy; tawdry b) mediocre, inferior, or insignificant … English World dictionary
two-bit — adjective INFORMAL not very good or not important … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
two-bit — [adj] cheap, worth very little base, catchpenny, cheesy, crappy*, cruddy, garbage, gaudy, inferior, junky*, lousy, no good, piddling, poor, ratty, rinky dink*, second rate, shoddy, sleazy, small time*, tatty, trashy, valueless, worthless; concept … New thesaurus
two-bit — ► ADJECTIVE N. Amer. informal ▪ insignificant, cheap, or worthless … English terms dictionary
two-bit — ˈ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ adjective Etymology: two bits 1. : of the value of two bits a two bit cigar 2. : of small worth or importance : trifling, petty, small time … Useful english dictionary
two-bit — ADJ: ADJ n (disapproval) You use two bit to describe someone or something that you have no respect for or that you think is inferior. [AM, INFORMAL] two bits → see bit ...some two bit little dictator... That may be two bit psychology, but it s… … English dictionary
two-bit — mod. cheap; small time. □ Max is just a two bit pusher. I want Mr. Big. □ I’m tired of your two bit efforts to run this office … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
two-bit — /tooh bit /, adj. Slang. 1. costing twenty five cents. 2. inferior or unimportant; small time: a two bit actor. [1795 1805, Amer.] * * * … Universalium
two-bit — adjective Date: 1802 1. of the value of two bits 2. cheap or trivial of its kind ; petty, small time < a two bit chiseler > … New Collegiate Dictionary
