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day laborer
noun
- an unskilled worker paid by the day.
Word History and Origins
Origin of day laborer1
Example Sentences
The day laborers who win a First Amendment lawsuit defending their right to seek work are defending the Constitution for all.
The piece focuses on Palm Beach County, “home to old-monied millionaires but also some of the poorest day laborers and farm workers in America.”
Two-and-twenty years ago, Sandy McGregor worked as a day-laborer in a shipyard, at three and sixpence per day.
I'm nothing but an ordinary day-laborer, a plain Mick, a sort of a Wop, obeying orders.
He is at most times a day-laborer, slouchy in his bearing and slovenly in his dress.
His was a finer nature than theirs; he was a gentleman, thank God, and no day-laborer.
Perhaps he may be even worse; a common day-laborer of the parish.
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