day labourer
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"Farming only leads to financial losses. I'd rather work as a day labourer and earn 100 to 200 baht a day just to get by. Expenses don't go down, but income keeps falling."
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
"Nothing could get in or out without the RSF saying so," said 34-year old day labourer Salaheldin Abdelqader, who escaped seven months into the siege and returned last year.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
And her husband's wage as a day labourer wasn't enough to support their family of six.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2023
"All we want to do is leave this country. There is nothing here anymore," said Bilal Hamam, a 42-year-old day labourer at a local cement factory who was not called to work on Monday.
From Reuters ● Sep. 1, 2022
Michael Hale was a day labourer, as his father was before him.
From Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading by William Henry Giles Kingston
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