laborer
Americannoun
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a person engaged in work that requires bodily strength rather than skill or training.
a laborer in the field.
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any worker.
Other Word Forms
- underlaborer noun
Etymology
Origin of laborer
Example Sentences
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This laborer wants to know what you mean by labor becoming tokenized.
From Barron's
Mayor Karen Bass and members of the City Council announced they would abandon the holiday honoring Chavez’s birthday and instead rename it “Farm Workers Day” to honor laborers who toil in the fields.
From Los Angeles Times
Sometimes it was a customer; most often it was simply a visitor—from a laborer with wooden klompen on his feet to a fleet owner—all bringing their problems to Father.
From Literature
For decades, agricultural laborers had lived in substandard housing and were paid terrible wages.
From Los Angeles Times
However, other than Revueltas’ fictional account, the story of the laborers, their movement’s successes and the astonishing cultivation of the desert lands had been lost to history — until now.
From Los Angeles Times
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