government job. Unofficial task done in the workplace. Common abbreviation: G-job. ... Thus the response when the supervisor questions what appears to be personal work done on company time: "it's government work."
• <span>SOVEREIGN (noun)</span>
The noun SOVEREIGN has 1 sense:
1. a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right
This meant that early colonial labor forces in the Americas were often a mix of Europeans, American Indians, and Africans. In large plantation areas, however, enslaved Africans and their African American offspring increasingly became the dominant laboring population. Colonial Labor. The servants which are made use of in the English colonies are either free persons, or slaves, and the former are again of two different sorts. The colonial economy of what would become the United States was pre-industrial, primarily characterized by subsistence farming. Farm households also were engaged in handicraft production, mostly for home consumption, but with some goods sold.
