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laborer::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | jack, labourer, manual laborer |
| Type of | workingman, workman, working man, working person |
| Has types | day laborer, day labourer, digger, dishwasher, dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, drudge, faller, feller, fireman, galley slave, gandy dancer, gipsy, gravedigger, gypsy, hand, hewer, hired hand, hired man, hod carrier, hodman, itinerant, loader, logger, longshoreman, lumberjack, lumberman, lumper, miner, mineworker, mule driver, mule skinner, muleteer, navvy, peon, platelayer, porter, rail-splitter, sawyer, section hand, skinner, splitter, sprayer, stacker, steeplejack, stevedore, stoker, tracklayer, woodcutter, wrecker, agricultural laborer, yardman, agricultural labourer, bracero, cleaner |
| Derivation | labor |
Examples of laborer
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Jackson appealed his termination and won, but was demoted to a laborer position.
From the abcnews.go.com
In the scorching heat of the mid day sun, laborer Pista Devi has left the field.
From the edition.cnn.com
At 25, after years as a laborer, he joined the Holy Cross Community in Montreal.
From the heraldtribune.com
Yura, are you the last surviving Kolyma laborer or were you servicing the camps?
From the economist.com
A skilled laborer in the plastics industry, Smith gradually became unemployable.
From the freep.com
He injured his back in 2006, forcing him to quit his job as a concrete laborer.
From the stltoday.com
Michael Shea, 65, a retired laborer from Wood River, was lucky enough to get one.
From the stltoday.com
Feliciano Ramirez, 26, waiter, and Marjorie Ortiz, 29, laborer, both of Toledo.
From the toledoblade.com
He's been able to work as a laborer for his dad at Gratzer Brothers Construction.
From the stltoday.com
- Someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
- A laborer is one of the construction trades, traditionally considered unskilled manual labor, as opposed to skilled labor. In the division of labor, laborers have all blasting, hand tools, power tools, air tools, and small heavy equipment, and act as assistants to other trades, e.g. ...
- One who uses body strength instead of intellectual power to earn a wage, usually hourly
- A worker; especially one doing rough work that takes little skill.
- Those who perform manual labor without a craft or profession to speak of.
- Ordinarily denotes a construction worker who has no specific trade and whose function is to support the activity of the licensed trades.
- A committed believer in Jesus Christ who is actively involved in ministry among the lost and with believers with the aim of fulfilling the Great Commission of making disciples. ...
