The phrase "acute labor" is not commonly used in written English and may not convey a clear meaning.
It could potentially be used in a context discussing urgent or intense labor situations, but it is not standard terminology.
Example: "The hospital was experiencing acute labor demands during the peak of the flu season."
Alternatives: "intense labor" or "urgent labor".
But now a strong economy in Poland, and an increasingly acute labor shortage, are beckoning migrants like Katarzyna back.
GUANGZHOU, China — Just a year after laying off millions of factory workers, China is facing an increasingly acute labor shortage.
All but closed to immigration, Japan faces an acute labor shortage, especially for jobs at the country's hardscrabble farms or small family-run factories.
Many workers in Guangdong province already earn considerably more than the minimum wage because of an acute labor shortage even before the strike started.
Mr. Eason, 72, a tall, silver-haired farmer who has been working in agriculture for three decades, could not recall a more acute labor shortage.
But the strikes involving the other employers appeared to have ended quickly as managers, faced with an acute labor shortage, sought to address workers' demands.
Lawrence adduced reasons for the surge besides the rankling oppressions of Jim Crow: an acute industrial labor shortage in the North; the devastation of Southern agriculture by floods and the boll weevil; and urgings in the black press, which broadcast prospects of better (though still meagre) living conditions and educational opportunities, and the freedom to vote.
The lower HIF activity in labored placentas at high altitude suggests that the glycolytic response to labor (acute ischemic hypoxia) is blunted compared with placentas from sea-level pregnancies.
Their main problem is Liberia's acute shortage of labor.
This is even more acute in the labor market.
Further, when challenged with acute ischemic hypoxia (labor), the metabolic profiles resembled that of tissue preconditioned to hypoxia (11).
