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labour exchange

noun

Definitions

  1. An employment agency, a job centre.

    • Isn't it taking candour unwisely far to anticipate clueless responses from some station staff and excuse them on the grounds that "some of the chaps you see in uniform have just arrived from the labour exchange"?
    • Against her father’s wishes, at the age of 18 Elizabeth registered at a labour exchange and undertook a vehicle maintenance course at Aldershot, Hampshire, learning how to strip an engine.
    • Wadebridge area railwaymen were reported in the local press as "worried", while National Union of Railwaymen (NUR) Wadebridge branch secretary W J Hambly believed "the rail closures will mean dole queues at the Labour Exchange for many".

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA