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labor exchange

noun

Definition of labor exchange

1 : an exchange for direct transfer of products according to the amount of labor expended in making them without the intervention of money
2a : employment agency
b chiefly British : employment exchange

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First Known Use of labor exchange

1828, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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