farmworker

American  

[fahrm-wur-ker] / ˈfɑrmˌwɜr kər /

noun

1. farm hand.

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Etymology

Origin of farmworker

farm + worker

Example Sentences

Villaraigosa frequently spoke about his roots in the labor movement, including a farmworker boycott when he was 15 years old.

From Los Angeles Times

In July, a farmworker in the country illegally fell to his death during an immigration raid in Camarillo, part of her district, and fear of other sweeps prompted the recent cancellation of a holiday parade in her hometown of Santa Barbara.

From Los Angeles Times

Limón remembered Jaime Alanis Garcia, the farmworker who died in Camarillo in July, in a speech on the Senate floor.

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“After 30 years of working in this country as a farmworker, doing the job that our government, our country, our constituents, has called an essential worker job, that his life would end that day, that way, because of where he was working,” said Limón.

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The Amazon items ranged from gift cards and shoes to Beats headphones and even a Nintendo switch that a farmworker family from Bakersfield had asked for.

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