farmworker

[fahrm-wur-ker]

noun

1. farm hand.

Word History and Origins

Origin of farmworker¹

farm + worker

Example Sentences

From farm fields to car washes, labor groups have scrambled to support families of the hundreds detained and deported in numerous chaotic and violent raids that have resulted in the deaths of two people —a day laborer and a farmworker — killed while fleeing federal agents.

From Los Angeles Times

The following month, amid harvest season, federal agents were caught on video as they chased a farmworker across a strawberry field.

From Los Angeles Times

During a public meeting in Coalinga this April, Leticia Villegas, a farmworker from Five Points, told the Energy Commission that she lives three miles from where the Darden solar panels will be built.

From Los Angeles Times

The farmworker who suffered fatal injuries while fleeing an immigration raid in Ventura County was buried in his Mexican hometown.

From Los Angeles Times

The country was facing a dire farmworker shortage because the bracero program, which provided cheap legal labor from Mexico for decades, had ended the year before.

From Los Angeles Times