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View synonyms for day laborer
day laborer
noun
- an unskilled worker paid by the day.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of day laborer1
First recorded in 1540–50
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Example Sentences
Two-and-twenty years ago, Sandy McGregor worked as a day-laborer in a shipyard, at three and sixpence per day.
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I'm nothing but an ordinary day-laborer, a plain Mick, a sort of a Wop, obeying orders.
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He is at most times a day-laborer, slouchy in his bearing and slovenly in his dress.
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His was a finer nature than theirs; he was a gentleman, thank God, and no day-laborer.
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Perhaps he may be even worse; a common day-laborer of the parish.
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