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labourer::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | jack, laborer, 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 | labour |
Examples of labourer
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That's why, as a boy, I had to take those jobs as a labourer and in the factory.
From the en.wikipedia.org
In fact, as he recalls now, he returned quietly to Detroit and became a labourer.
From the guardian.co.uk
He was athletic and had worked as a labourer but not yet found his niche in life.
From the au.news.yahoo.com
Unsurprisingly he chose construction and worked as a site labourer for 18 months.
From the guardian.co.uk
I left school at 16 with no GCSEs and ended up working as a builder's labourer.
From the guardian.co.uk
At around 6 a.m., a passing labourer saw women's items near a water-filled pit.
From the en.wikipedia.org
He worked as a casual labourer and eventually as a painter, selling watercolours.
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He is a day labourer, aged 21, making cardboard boxes for a handful of rupees.
From the guardian.co.uk
Shahid Ali, a Pakistani labourer, shares one of these with two other workers.
From the economist.com
- Laborer: someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
- (labouring) drudging: doing arduous or unpleasant work; "drudging peasants"; "the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton"; "toiling coal miners in the black deeps"
- 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. ...
- Alternative spelling of laborer
- (The Labourers) (1779), The Haymakers (1783) and The Reapers (1783) by George Stubbs
- One who labours, one who does heavy work requiring little skill.
- (US laborer) a person doing unskilled, usu. manual, work for wages.
- A person who labours doing work that requires strength or patience rather than skill.
- Performed physical labour. Could have worked in many different industries. It is very common to come across labourers when researching a family tree.
