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Nhà tôi và nhà bác hàng xóm thường đổi công nhau vào mùa gặt.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • Mutual help in labor: A traditional form of low-level cooperation, primarily in agricultural or rural settings, where individuals or families exchange labor or work for each other's benefit without monetary payment.
   • Labor exchange: The practice of swapping work duties, typically on farms or in villages, to assist one another during peak seasons like planting or harvesting.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Các hộ nông dân trong làng thường đổi công vào mùa gặt. (Farm households in the village often engage in mutual help during the harvest season.)
  • Hình thức đổi công giúp giảm chi phí thuê nhân công. (The labor exchange practice helps reduce the cost of hiring workers.)

Advanced Usage

• The concept can extend beyond agriculture to describe any informal, reciprocal arrangement of swapping services or favors within a community.

Variants and Related Words

• Hợp tác xã (n): cooperative. A more formal and structured organization for collective economic activity.
• Giúp đỡ lẫn nhau (v): to help each other. A general phrase for mutual assistance.

Synonyms

• Labor exchange
• Mutual aid (in work)
• Reciprocal help

Related Idioms

• : This phrase, meaning "hand to hand," can conceptually relate to the direct, reciprocal nature of .

Học thuật

1. Mutual help (a kind of low-level co-operative)